‘Economy of Truth: Practical Maxims and Reflections’ – A Review
“Maxims represent crisp, well-decorated, rhetorical, and seemingly universal rules which help us conduct ourselves in the world. They are compound ideas distilled into a few words. They do not exhaustively match the reality – but rather render it bearable.” – Vizi Andrei Maxims In this short paragraph from his book ‘Economy of Truth’ Vizi Andrei eloquently sums up maxims, their use and limitations, before proceeding to whimsically introduce these very same short, snappy heuristics in…