Clergyman's

The ""flow of information"" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort of unambiguous measure to this ""flow.
- 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 measure to this ""flow.
- Anatol Rapoport

The purpose of formulating conflict as a game is not that of resolving the conflict by 'solving the game.' It is that of displaying the structure of the conflict and thereby exposing features of it that may be concealed by rhetoric. In particular, appreciation of the peculiar structure of some of the so-called mixed—motive conflicts represented nonzero-sum games may change the conflicting parties' perception of their situation.
- Anatol Rapoport

A fundamental value in the scientific outlook is concern with the best available map of reality. The scientist will always seek a description of events which enables him to predict most by assuming least. He thus already prefers a particular form of behavior. If moralities are systems of preferences, here is at least one point at which science cannot be said to be completely without preferences. Science prefers good maps.
- Anatol Rapoport

No map contains all the information about the territory it represents. The road map we get at the gasoline station may show all the roads in the state, but it will not as a rule show latitude and longitude. A physical map goes into details about the topography of a country but is indifferent to political boundaries. Furthermore, the scale of the map makes a big difference. The smaller the scale the less features will be shown.
- Anatol Rapoport

Our first objective in undertaking the experimental program described here has been to gain some understanding of what goes on in long sequences of plays of Prisoner's Dilemma. We have attempted to gain this understanding by postulating a system going through a sequence of states and by attempting to formulate some mathematical models from which the dynamics of the system could be deduced. Once such a model is found, its parameters, properly interpreted, become the key terms in the emerging psychological theory. This strategy can be deemed successful, if the parameters so discovered are independent of the process itself, if they suggest further investigation, and if the further investigations, in turn, lead to a more inclusive theory.
- Anatol Rapoport

There are two suffixes in our language which suggest organized knowledge. One is the venerable, academic ""ology,"" that reminds one of university curricula and scholarship. The other is the energetic and somewhat mysterious ""ics,"" which has a connotative flavor of magic. Where ""ology"" suggests academic isolation ""its"" suggests a method of attack on life's problems. It contains a faint throwback to the ancient dreams of the philosopher's stone and of ""keys"" to the riddles of the universe. Ancient words ending in ""ics"" are mathematics and metaphysics. Of more recent origin are economics, statistics, semantics, and cybernetics.
- Anatol Rapoport

There are two suffixes in our language which suggest organized knowledge. One is the venerable, academic ""ology,"" that reminds one of university curricula and scholarship. The other is the energetic and somewhat mysterious ""ics,"" which has a connotative flavor of magic. Where ""ology"" suggests academic isolation ""its"" suggests a method of attack on life's problems. It contains a faint throwback to the ancient dreams of the philosopher's stone and of ""keys"" to the riddles of the universe. Ancient words ending in ""ics"" are mathematics and metaphysics. Of more recent origin are economics, statistics, semantics, and cybernetics.
- Anatol Rapoport

There are two suffixes in our language which suggest organized knowledge. One is the venerable, academic ""ology,"" that reminds one of university curricula and scholarship. The other is the energetic and somewhat mysterious ""ics,"" which has a connotative flavor of magic. Where ""ology"" suggests academic isolation ""its"" suggests a method of attack on life's problems. It contains a faint throwback to the ancient dreams of the philosopher's stone and of ""keys"" to the riddles of the universe. Ancient words ending in ""ics"" are mathematics and metaphysics. Of more recent origin are economics, statistics, semantics, and cybernetics.
- Anatol Rapoport

There are two suffixes in our language which suggest organized knowledge. One is the venerable, academic ""ology,"" that reminds one of university curricula and scholarship. The other is the energetic and somewhat mysterious ""ics,"" which has a connotative flavor of magic. Where ""ology"" suggests academic isolation ""its"" suggests a method of attack on life's problems. It contains a faint throwback to the ancient dreams of the philosopher's stone and of ""keys"" to the riddles of the universe. Ancient words ending in ""ics"" are mathematics and metaphysics. Of more recent origin are economics, statistics, semantics, and cybernetics.
- Anatol Rapoport