The Platonic fold is the explosive boundary where the Platonic mind-set enters in contact with messy reality, where the gap between what you know and what you think you know becomes dangerously wide. It is here that the Black Swan is produced.
The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Incerto)
from Nassim Nicholas Taleb 📕
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