He's following his own advice by describing his ideas "via negativa" :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile#Via_negativa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An

He's following his own advice by describing his ideas "via negativa" :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile#Via_negativa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile#Via_negativa Lots of descriptions on the web: https://www.bing.com/search?q=taleb%20via%20negativa https://www.bing.com/search?q=taleb%20via%20negativa (google seems to have mutilated its URL, so using bing) In other words, positive knowledge and negative knowledge aren't symmetrical. It helps to say why people are wrong (although if you want to say he's rude and offputting about it, I won't disagree, although I've gotten past it) There are also a lot more ways to be wrong than to be right. So describing why people are wrong could take a lot of space in the book, and still be valuable.