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... playing a game is that which reduces to a minimum the maximum of the losses which your opponent can inflict upon you by any method of play open to him : the safest inductive policy for the scientist to adopt is that which minimizes the ...
... playing a game is that which reduces to a minimum the maximum of the losses which your opponent can inflict upon you by any method of play open to him : the safest inductive policy for the scientist to adopt is that which minimizes the ...
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... play— we can of course , if we choose , read a play in our own time — that is being performed in front of us , we cannot halt . The earlier scenes , events , and speeches we can recall only in memory . As in real life we cannot deal a ...
... play— we can of course , if we choose , read a play in our own time — that is being performed in front of us , we cannot halt . The earlier scenes , events , and speeches we can recall only in memory . As in real life we cannot deal a ...
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... play which retains and uses to the full the devices and conventions of romantic comedy although almost certainly later in date than Troilus and Hamlet . These two moments are touched with tragic quality , in a different setting they ...
... play which retains and uses to the full the devices and conventions of romantic comedy although almost certainly later in date than Troilus and Hamlet . These two moments are touched with tragic quality , in a different setting they ...
Contents
LIST OF FELLOWS | 7 |
OFFICERS AND COUNCIL July | 11 |
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS By Sir H I Bell | 15 |
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