And, as expected, via negativa is part of classical wisdom.… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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And, as expected, via negativa is part of classical wisdom. For the Arab scholar and religious leader Ali Bin Abi-Taleb (no relation), keeping ones distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1 January 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon) is an essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance.

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Keeping ones distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man.

keeping one’s distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man.

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