ClaimsNassim Taleb

“I'm certain that we have more people who are independent today than we did in Roman times.”

Nassim Taleb, interviewee 10 July 2017 Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Work, Slavery, the Minority Rule, and Skin in the Game (EconTalk) archived copy

Factual Philosophy, ethics and society

There are more independent people today than in Roman times.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?

Reasoning

'Independent people' is undefined, so it cannot be tested.

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Nassim Taleb, “There are more independent people today than in Roman times.” (said 10 July 2017). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_05f7e6cd56b6, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_05f7e6cd56b6

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