[EM] How would Condorcet himself have solved his paradox?

[Markus Schulze]

Dear Ted,

I interpret Condorcet as follows: (1) Condorcet mistakenly
believed that, when you successively lock the strongest
pairwise defeats, then you get a linear ordering of the
candidates before locking a defeat creates a directed cycle.
(2) Condorcet mistakenly believed that, when you successively
eliminate the weakest pairwise defeat that is in a directed
cycle until there are no directed cycles anymore, then the
remaining pairwise defeats always define a unique linear
ordering of the candidates.

Markus Schulze