Rules, utilities, and strategies in dialogical games

Jaakko Hintikka

pp. 277-294

in: Lucia Vaina, Jaakko Hintikka (eds), Cognitive constraints on communication, Berlin, Springer, 1984

Abstract

In an earlier paper, I have defined certain dialogical games consisting mostly of questions and answers.¹ They are games in what is intended to be the sense employed in the mathematical theory of games. From this vantage point, the definitions so far offered are incomplete, however, in several respects, especially in that the payoffs are left partly undetermined. It is my purpose in this paper to show how the payoffs can be determined somewhat more fully and indicate what theoretical considerations the determination of the payoffs depends on.