September 2013
Beginner
320 pages
6h 20m
English
Knowing too much can make your predictions less reliable.
The ancient Greek poet Archilochus once famously wrote, ‘the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.’ The philosopher Isaiah Berlin then appropriated this distinction to categorise great writers and thinkers into two camps: hedgehogs (such as Plato and Nietzsche), who see the world through one great big idea, and foxes (such as Aristotle or Shakespeare), who view it through multiple lenses. More recently, the Berkeley-based philosopher Philip Tetlock has used the analogy to explain ...
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