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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">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
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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
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<div> On Monday, 14 August 2023 at 00:14:16 BST, Kristofer
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<div dir="ltr">On 8/14/23 00:33, Toby Pereira wrote:<br
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Is it a logical impossibility, though? The Condorcet jury
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