At 12:04 PM -0500 9/6/04, Paul Kislanko wrote:
Suppose I were a staunch "pro-life" believer, so "anti-abortion" is
my most important criterion. There are 5 candidates in the race, and
A & E are both anti-abortion, but have opposite views on gun control
(A for, E against) and capital punishment (
Do you believe that cycles in personal preferences are rational when the
preferences aren't used for voting? For example, would you consider it
rational to prefer having an apple to an orange to a pear to an apple?
(No voting, just which would you prefer to buy if they had the same
price). The an
Paul Kislanko wrote:
Suppose I
were a staunch pro-life believer, so anti-abortion is my most important
criterion. There are 5 candidates in the race, and A & E are both
anti-abortion, but have opposite views on gun control (A for, E against)
and capital punishment (A against, E for). B, C, and D a
Evidently examples matter more than logic, so here’s
one last try in support of Jobst’s argument that pairwise counting
methods should have a pairwise collection method.
Suppose I were a staunch “pro-life” believer, so
“anti-abortion” is my most important criterion. There are 5
candidat
