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A philosophy of risk from Duncan Pritchard: 'not probability but fragility'

'Tempting Fate', published by Princeton University Press, proposes a theory that explains risk through fragility rather than probability. Pritchard's example is Alex Honnold's ropeless ascent of El Capitan.

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