Niou's note (1987) on Nanson's rule for determining a winner from voters' preference rankings accuses several people, including Fishburn (1977), of misstating Nanson's rule. He says, for example, that I (1977: 473) describe the rule thus: Nanson's function is a Borda elimination procedure. At each
A Note on Goldberg's Note
β Scribed by Leopold Pospisil
- Book ID
- 111804194
- Publisher
- American Anthropological Association
- Year
- 1966
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 278 KB
- Volume
- 68
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-7294
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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In his Note Dr Beckermann questions the adequacy and validity of the practical inference schema (PS) as a model of intentionalist explanations of action. He raises three critical points. I shall deal with them in a slightly different order from the one adopted by Beckermann. On p. 351 he writes: 9
A new proof is given of the nonuniform version of Fisher's inequality, first proved by Majumdar. The proof is ``elementary,'' in the sense of being purely combinatorial and not using ideas from linear algebra. However, no nonalgebraic proof of the n-dimensional analogue of this result (Theorem 3 her