To clarify (once again), the central idea of the INCERTO is: be as skeptical as possible about your knowledge of the world, and as certain as possible about what constitutes wise action, whattodoaboudit.

So embedded in the idea is that (positive) knowledge about the world is incomplete, transitory, continuously revised, but wisdom (what to do about knowledge) doesn’t change.

via To clarify (once again), the central idea of the… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.