Jamal Awil

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Discrete qualitative limits attract more committed partners than vague ones. [causal]

My argument is that there are particular limits—simple, discrete, qualitative, "obvious" limits—that are conducive to a concerted choice; those who specify other kinds of limits, I predict, can find few partners or none at all whose limits coincide with theirs.

Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, loc. 602