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The classical pay-off matrix for the Prisoner's Dilemma defines values which satisfy the required inequality T > R > P > S, and R > (T + S) / 2 [ 18 19 20 ] (The latter inequality is to prevent the possibility that players collude and split the payoffs).
Here is how Britannica.com defines fin de siècle :
"Organic intellectual" is not strictly identical with "public intellectual," of course, and one wonders whether Russell Jacoby understands who exactly he's signed up to teach, given his understanding of the term "public intellectual" (in The Last Intellectuals he defines it as one who writes with "vigor and clarity," not as an activist or left-wing scholar).
Which leads to a second reaction: The reporting, if one defines reporting in its smallest-bore sense, is sometimes breathtaking.
I was terrible at math when I was young (if anything, I'm worse now), but that didn't stop me from reading everything nontechnical I could get my hands on concerning topology, which my dictionary defines as "a branch of mathematics that deals with the properties of a geometric figure which do not vary when the figure is transformed in certain ways."