Adversaries Quote by Anatol Rapoport

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

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

(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

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

Cooperate on move one; thereafter, do whatever the other player did the previous move.

— Anatol Rapoport

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

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

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

A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions.

— Anatol Rapoport

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

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

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