[EM] Condorcet and other authors on Condorcet (and how does range voting fit in?)

[Kevin Venzke]

Hi Warren,

--- En date de : Lun 17.5.10, Warren Smith <warren.wds at gmail.com> a écrit :
> I just started looking in the library
> to answer the historical
> question "what did Condorcet himself (and other authors
> about
> Condorcetness) have in mind?"
> 
> Albert Wiele: "Democracy," St Martins Press NY 1999
> on p133 defines "A condorcet-winner is that alternative
> that could
> defeat every other alternative in a pair-wise contest."
> Note: this can be interpreted as saying "range voting is a
> condorcet
> system" or "not."
>
> It is ambiguous.

It's only ambiguous if he didn't define "pair-wise contest." Did he?

Personally I know what I mean when I say "pairwise contest" and it 
doesn't concern me that if I spoke less precisely then something else 
could be understood.

Kevin Venzke