I'm fairly certain that Taleb's read Maistre. Certainly, modern history would've given him ample reason to heed Maistre's words.
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Yes he has, I think he even mentions him in a couple of his books.https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/antifragile-by-nassim-nicholas-taleb-8343870.html …
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Sure, the point that Maistre's making in the extended context is that this makes absolutely no sense in an epistemological system of Empiricism and the whole thing defeats itself.
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