MIKE OSSIPOFF nkklrp-at-hotmail.com |EMlist| wrote:
"Approval would pass CC if CC were defined votes-only, as you yourself said."
Nonsense. Any reasonable definition of the Condorcet Criterion either assumes that ranking is allowed or says so explicitly. CC applies to ordinal methods only. Duh!
After thinking about it a bit more, I realized that my statement, "CC applies to ordinal methods only," could be misconstrued by legalistic pedants. Let me forstall their bleatings with a dose of common sense. Strictly speaking, CC applies to non-ordinal methods too, but they fail by *definition*.
If you never went to Harvard, then is it true that you "failed to graduate from Harvard"? Well, yes and no. You didn't graduate, but how could be said to "fail" if you didn't even try? The same applies to non-ordinal methods. You can say they "fail" CC, but then they didn't even try.
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