# Contested concept: forgiveness

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- **Contestedness**: semantic
- **Diagnosis**: The ambiguity in how much 'forgiveness' is required masks a tension between complete submissiveness and strategic error-correction.
- **Canonical**: `/concept/forgiveness` (data: `/concept/forgiveness.json`)

## Senses in use
- **A strategic tolerance for perceived slights to account for potential errors or misunderstandings in communication.** — used in 3 claim(s)
- **Total passivity or the persistent refusal to retaliate against exploitation, leading to sub-optimal outcomes.** — used in 3 claim(s)

## Claims using this term
- [The most effective strategies in strategic games include a degree of forgiveness to prevent a cycle of mutual retaliation triggered by acci…](/claim/claim_168b56fad7cf.md) _(sense: A strategic tolerance for perceived slights to account for potential errors or misunderstandings in communication.)_
- [In game theory scenarios where players can choose to cooperate (give) or exploit (take), a strategy of being endlessly forgiving leads to s…](/claim/claim_4ea0da6be32b.md) _(sense: Total passivity or the persistent refusal to retaliate against exploitation, leading to sub-optimal outcomes.)_
- [Effective game theory strategies often incorporate a degree of forgiveness to prevent a cycle of mutual defection caused by accidental erro…](/claim/claim_924493127b56.md) _(sense: A strategic tolerance for perceived slights to account for potential errors or misunderstandings in communication.)_
- [A successful reciprocity-based strategy must include a degree of forgiveness to prevent errors caused by misunderstandings from escalating …](/claim/claim_b5eab38c2fdc.md) _(sense: A strategic tolerance for perceived slights to account for potential errors or misunderstandings in communication.)_
- [In game theory scenarios where two players can choose to give or take, a strategy of being endlessly forgiving leads to problematic outcome…](/claim/claim_c84cfef5d143.md) _(sense: Total passivity or the persistent refusal to retaliate against exploitation, leading to sub-optimal outcomes.)_
- [In social or strategic games, a strategy of being endlessly forgiving—never retaliating against exploitation—consistently results in proble…](/claim/claim_e621d7b4f480.md) _(sense: Total passivity or the persistent refusal to retaliate against exploitation, leading to sub-optimal outcomes.)_