WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/taleb-nassim-nicholas/76280/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Nassim Nicholas Taleb</b></a></p><blockquote>Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.</blockquote><p><b>Nassim Nicholas Taleb</b> (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist<br><i>The Black Swan</i>, Part 1, ch. 1 “The Apprenticeship of an Empirical Skeptic” (2007)</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/taleb-nassim-nicholas/76280/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/taleb-nassim-nichola…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=reality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reality</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=truth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>truth</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=boundaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boundaries</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=brightline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brightline</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=categorization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>categorization</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=category" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>category</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=classification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>classification</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>complexity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=comprehension" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>comprehension</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=inflexibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inflexibility</span></a></p>