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“Schizophrenia --its nature, etiology, and the kind of therapy to use for it--remains one of the most puzzling of the mental illnesses. The theory of schizophrenia presented here is based on communications analysis, and specifically on the Theory of Logical Types. From this theory and from observations of schizophrenic patients is derived a description, and the necessary conditions for, a situation called the "double bind"--a situation in which no matter what a person does, he "can't win." It is hypothesized that a person caught in the double bind may develop schizophrenic symptoms”

Source: Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology

“What you have to watch out for are the theories that claim to be infallible. Because the only way their believers can win is to stomp out everyone who disagrees with them.”

Way Winning Watches Theory Claims Believer Disagree Infallible

Author:Robert X. Cringely

“In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery.”

Law Winning Practice Theory Birth Equal Privilege Equality Inequality Overwhelming Lottery

Book:Fanatics & Fools: How Politicians are Betraying the American People

Source: Fanatics & Fools: How Politicians are Betraying the American People

“Being Americans, we prosecute wars to win them, not to have reasonable response, not to have appropriate levels of retaliation. Our theory is you start bombing our cities; we're going to defeat you and make it impossible.”

War Winning Levels Cities Impossible Theory Response Defeat Reasonable Appropriate Bombing Retaliation

Author:Newt Gingrich

“Winning a rowing race is not like winning anything else. Here's my theory: you're facing backwards, so you're looking at the people you're beating--and there's something exquisite about that.”

People Winning Race Theory Backwards Exquisite Rowing

Author:Hugh Laurie