Like all of mathematics, game theory is a tautology whose conclusions are true because they are contained in the premises. (Thomas Flanagan (political scientist))

Like all of mathematics, game theory is a tautology whose conclusions are true because they are contained in the premises.

Thomas Flanagan (political scientist)

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