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In this episode, Chingachgook and Howard Roark ascertain the following terms and definitions:

Initiation—“the voluntary practice of not waiting to resolve a point of contention* (*corollary: contention resolution requires the acceptance that one’s observations might be inaccurate)”

Non-initiation—“the active avoidance of resolving a point of contention”

Prisoner’s Dilemma—“a quadrant structure of permutations in which large, unilateral benefit might be gained in the short term, but will result in certain relational devastation in the long term, if the individual opts for said unilateral benefit at the expense of sustainable relational prosperity that can arise from mutual initiation”

The Fog—“a metaphor for the process of hiding material, whether purposefully or inadvertently, rather than fully specifying and examining this material, despite this specification and examination being better in the long term, particularly pertaining to that which will or will not keep a relationship sustainable and prosperous”