Paul & Markus--
Iīve posted several different reasons why the use of "prefer" doesnīt cause a meaning problem for my criteria. If you disagree, then you need to address those arguments, to tell exactly which part you disagree with.
Or tell exactly which parts you think are unclear or undefined, etc., and why you believe that.
But hereīs a better suggestion:
If, in any situation (configuration of candidates, voters, and votersī preferences), with any method, that method can be shown to meet or fail a particular criterion, then that criterion is making a definite distinction among methods. Itīs reliably distinguishing methods that pass from methods that donīt pass. That criterion canīt be said to be undefined. Thatīs a results-test for the definedness of a criterion.
True, the fact that no such situation has been posted doeesnīt prove that none exists, and thatīs why I told why "prefer" doesnīt cause a meaning or definedness problem for my criteria. But I doubt that anything I say will convince you on that, so just post an ambiguous situation for one of my criteria.
So, if you think my criteria arenīt well-defined, or arenīt defined at all, then post a situation in which some method cannot be definitely said to pass or fail one of my criteria.
Iīve been answering vague, general claims that my criteria arenīt defined, but these discussions arenīt going anywhere. So just post a situation that is ambiguous for one of my criteria, with some method, if you can find such a situation.
Mike Ossipoff
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