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risk

statistics

Virgil

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British

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translator

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anthropologist

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scientific organization

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

collector of fairy tales

British Academy

is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself.

is restricted to decisions which can be made on the basis of cost-benefit. It is not risk when the likelihood of the event is not measurable, calculative, or, assessable.

These are cases in which decisions cannot be made on the basis of a cost-benefit balance, which remains unknown. Ewald writes of the limits of an insurance-based approach in such cases: 'One cannot foresee what one does not know, even less what one cannot know.'10 And further, catastrophic and irreparable events cannot be adequately compensated. If the likelihood of the event is not measurable and its extent is not assessable, it is not a 'risk' in the technical sense of a danger that has been brought into the realm of calculative decision.11 (Lakoff 2007 : 252)

is often used as a drunken man uses lampposts; for support rather than illumination.

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts- for support rather than illumination.

is a writer who could only follow and imitate, with a pale antiquarian interest, the things that were alive for Homer.

Of all that [Homer] knew he sang, but Virgil could only follow and imitate, with a pale antiquarian interest, the things that were alive for Homer.

Andrew Lang

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