Although the drama of games of strategy is strongly linked with the psychological aspects of the conflict, game theory is not concerned with these aspects. Game theory, so to speak, plays the board. It is concerned only with the logical… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
The usefulness of the models in constructing a testable theory of the process is severely limited by the quickly increasing number of parameters which… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
Do you know that all great spurts in...progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed system? — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
(Game theory is) essentially a structural theory. It uncovers the logical structure of a great variety of conflict situations and describes this structure in… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
Cooperate on move one; thereafter, do whatever the other player did the previous move. — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
Although the drama of games of strategy is strongly linked with the psychological aspects of the conflict, game theory is not concerned with these… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
The transition from the concept of information in the technical (communication engineering) sense to the semantic (theory of meaning) sense was indeed difficult, if… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
The purpose of formulating [a] conflict as a game is not that of resolving the conflict by 'solving the game.' It is that of… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions. — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
The "flow of information" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort of unambiguous… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
In the US. Infantry Manual published during World War II, the soldier was told what to do if a live grenade fell into the… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
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