On May 29, 2010, at 2:30 PM, robert bristow-johnson wrote:
i forgot to finish a sentence.
r b-j asks rhetorically:
now ask yourself the question whether or not Condorcet satisfies
these criteria (assuming a CW exists).
On May 27, 2010, at 1:09 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote:
Of course it does, because you only included the anti-strategy
criteria which it does pass.
r b-j responds:
they're more like basic principles of a fair and predictable (in
behavior) election system. they're almost axiomatic. if one were
to take issue with any one of those 6 principles,...
...i would ask them to defend their objection or devaluation
(relative to other criteria that might be seen to compete against
those 6) of any of those 6 principles on a fundamental philosophical
level. i know there are other election criteria of "goodness", but
those are the salient ones.
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