Condorcet
French revolutionary philosopher
Condorcet refers to the Marquis de Condorcet, an 18th-century French philosopher and mathematician who developed influential ideas about voting systems.
In modern usage, Condorcet appears almost exclusively in voting theory: a Condorcet winner is a candidate who would beat every other candidate in head-to-head matchups, and a Condorcet method is any voting system designed to select such a winner when one exists.
There was no Condorcet winner because the preferences formed a cycle.
Seemingly absurd truth
- cycleRepeating sequence of events
- winnerOne who prevails
- methodOrderly way of doing
- criterionStandard for judgment
preference · pairwise · majority · ranking · ballot · election · tournament · Arrow
Era prioritizing reason over dogma
- MarquisPersonal name for someone
- NicolasGreek name, triumph-related
- philosopheEnlightenment French thinker
- rationalistOne guided by reason
mathematician · encyclopedist · revolutionary · academician · humanist · abolitionist · egalitarian · progressivism
Quantified chance of occurrence
- statisticsCollected numerical information
- calculusMathematical analysis system
- expected valueProbability-weighted outcome average
- decision theoryStudy of optimal choices
binomial · likelihood · estimation · combinatorics · analysis · hypothesis · inference · voting power
paradox
Seemingly absurd truth
criterion · preference · pairwise · majority · ranking · ballot · election · tournament · Arrow · aggregation
Enlightenment
Era prioritizing reason over dogma
- MarquisPersonal name for someone
- NicolasGreek name, triumph-related
- philosopheEnlightenment French thinker
rationalist · mathematician · encyclopedist · revolutionary · academician · humanist · abolitionist · egalitarian · progressivism · perfectibility
probability
Quantified chance of occurrence
- statisticsCollected numerical information
- calculusMathematical analysis system
- expected valueProbability-weighted outcome average
decision theory · binomial · likelihood · estimation · combinatorics · analysis · hypothesis · inference · voting power · uncertainty
- French RevolutionBastille, guillotine, Robespierre, French Revolution, Marie Antoinette
- Enlightenment FiguresVoltaire, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu, John Locke
- Enlightenment ScienceLavoisier, Linnaeus, Euler, Laplace, Franklin
- Enlightenment ThinkersLocke, Voltaire, Rousseau, Kant, Hume
- French IntellectualsJean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Sartre, Voltaire
- French ThinkersDescartes, Sartre, Foucault, Voltaire, Rousseau
CondorcetBentham
Utilitarian ethics founder
utilitarianism · John Stuart Mill · consequentialism · Hobbes · Machiavelli
CondorcetRobespierre
Revolutionary who devoured himself
Jacobins · Marat · Montagnards