Every entrepreneur worth his or weight in bestselling business books is familiar with the philosophy of the lean start-up--a stratagem which advocates learning, analytics and iteration, and offers a more measured approach to organizational progress and expansion.
Farquhar's real contribution to the English drama came in 1706 with The Recruiting Officer and, in the following year, with The Beaux' Stratagem, which he finished on his deathbed.
It was More's anti-atheistic stratagem which lay behind the rejection of John Locke's speculation about the possibility of thinking matter by the Bishop of Worcester, Edward Stillingfleet (1635 1699).
First, in order to grab the moral high ground here you would have to actually be deterred by this nefarious stratagem, which no one ever is.
Widespread conviction can be false, of course, which is why the method of the School of Common Sense was thought suspect by many, described by Kant, for example, as a stratagem by which "the stalest windbag can confidently take up with the soundest thinker" (Kant 1783/1951: 259).
It has also had a leading role in his legal stratagems, which portray the prosecutors who have charged him with corruption as left-wing zealots wielding hammers and sickles.
He writes candidly about how everything began to revolve around "organizing the next fix" — elaborate stratagems, which at one point included buying doctor and nurse play sets at FAO Schwarz — and the difficulties of getting and staying clean.
You'll need to be careful, though, because your gunfire mows down friends as well as enemies, as do "stratagems", which is Helldiver jargon for satellite drops that plummet down from orbit at supersonic speeds.
(The phrase was popularized by the English poet Alexander Pope in 1709 as "Those oft are stratagems which errors seem,/Nor is it Homer nods, but that we dream". I sometimes make a mistake on purpose, too, to demonstrate the power of my mail pull).
Even a 0-s confinement is sufficient to prevent clockwise strategies, but rats seem to develop other stratagems which do not imply spatial memory.
