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Existentials and universals

There’s a famous story about swans that Nasim Taleb used for the title of his recent book. European zoologists had seen swans, and all the swans they had seen had white feathers, so they said that all the swans in the world were in fact white. Then a European went to Australia and saw swans with black feathers.

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Angus Grieve-Smith

2023

Title: Existentials and universals

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There’s a famous story about swans that Nasim Taleb used for the title of his recent book.

European zoologists had seen swans, and all the swans they had seen had white feathers, so they said that all the swans in the world were in fact white.

Then a European went to Australia and saw swans with black feathers.

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