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[Colin Champion]

I think it would be perfectly reasonable to accuse Condorcet of 
contradiction - not in his jury theorem, but in its generalisation to 
m-way voting. In order to apply his jury theorem to general voting 
problems, Condorcet had to assume that A's being better than C was 
independent of A's being better than B and B's being better than C.

CJC

On 14/08/2023 09:02, Toby Pereira wrote:
> I wasn't referring to the Condorcet Jury Theorem. I was referring to 
> the fact that there's no way that you can consistently define 
> society's preference in a way that you can determine whether society 
> prefers A or B by looking at the pairwise comparison. (Because of the 
> possibility of cycles.)
>
> On Monday, 14 August 2023 at 00:14:16 BST, Kristofer Munsterhjelm 
> <km_elmet at t-online.de> wrote:
>
>
> On 8/14/23 00:33, Toby Pereira wrote:
> > To be clearer I should have said "logical impossibility" rather than
> > "logical fallacy".
>
> Is it a logical impossibility, though? The Condorcet jury theorem may be
> unrealistic, but it's not a self-evident contradiction.
>
>
> -km

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