The premises of Condorcet’s jury theorem are not simultaneously justified.” Episteme 5
| Title: | The premises of Condorcet’s jury theorem are not simultaneously justified.” Episteme 5 |
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| Authors: | Franz Dietrich; Jel Code D |
| Contributors: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| Source: | http://edocs.ub.unimaas.nl/loader/file.asp?id=1310. |
| Publication Year: | 2008 |
| Collection: | CiteSeerX |
| Description: | to appear in Episteme- a Journal of Social Epistemology Condorcets famous jury theorem reaches an optimistic conclusion on the correctness of majority decisions, based on two controversial premises about voters: they are competent and vote independently, in a technical sense. I carefully analyse these premises and show that: (i) whether a premise is justi ed depends on the notion of probability considered; (ii) none of the notions renders both premises simultaneously justi ed. Under the perhaps most interesting notions, the independence assumption should be weakened. 1 |
| Document Type: | text |
| Language: | English |
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| Availability: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.594.518; http://edocs.ub.unimaas.nl/loader/file.asp?id=1310 |
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| Accession Number: | edsbas.D0257988 |
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