Explore Condorcet through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like mathematician or philosopher. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Condorcet in a sentence
Condorcet meaning
A surname from French.
Synonyms of Condorcet
Using Condorcet
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname from French.
- Useful related words include: marquis de condorcet, mathematician, philosopher.
- In the example corpus, condorcet often appears in combinations such as: condorcet winner, the condorcet, condorcet methods.
Context around Condorcet
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 14 start, 5 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Condorcet
- In this selection, "condorcet" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, non, conducting, think, winner, methods and method stand out and add context to how "condorcet" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include from one condorcet method to, a condorcet winner doesn and condorcet winner. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "condorcet" sits close to words such as abate, aeronautics and affidavits, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with condorcet
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A candidate with that property is called a Condorcet winner. (10 words)
Condorcet: From Natural Philosophy to Social Mathematics (1982) * Cosimo Scarcella, Condorçet. (11 words)
The criteria which Condorcet methods satisfy vary from one Condorcet method to another. (13 words)
Two-method systems One family of Condorcet methods consists of systems that first conduct a series of pairwise comparisons and then, if there is no Condorcet winner, fall back to an entirely different, non-Condorcet method to determine a winner. (40 words)
Advocates of Condorcet methods argue that a candidate can claim to have majority support only if they are the "Condorcet winner" that is, the candidate who would beat every other candidate in a series of one-on-one elections. (39 words)
A Condorcet winner doesn't always exist because majority preferences can be like rock-paper-scissors : for each candidate, there can be another that is preferred by some majority (this is known as Condorcet paradox ). (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Other Condorcet methods involve an entirely different system of counting, but are classified as Condorcet methods because they will still elect the Condorcet winner if there is one.
Two-method systems One family of Condorcet methods consists of systems that first conduct a series of pairwise comparisons and then, if there is no Condorcet winner, fall back to an entirely different, non-Condorcet method to determine a winner.
A Condorcet winner doesn't always exist because majority preferences can be like rock-paper-scissors : for each candidate, there can be another that is preferred by some majority (this is known as Condorcet paradox ).
Advocates of Condorcet methods argue that a candidate can claim to have majority support only if they are the "Condorcet winner" that is, the candidate who would beat every other candidate in a series of one-on-one elections.
As noted above, if there is no Condorcet winner a further method must be used to find the winner of the election, and this mechanism varies from one Condorcet method to another.
A voting system that always elects the Condorcet winner when there is one is described by electoral scientists as a system that satisfies the Condorcet criterion.
Because all Condorcet methods always choose the Condorcet winner when one exists, the difference between methods only appears when cyclic ambiguity resolution is required.
Condorcet Condorcet methods have a further-reduced incentive for the compromising strategy, but they have some vulnerability to the burying strategy.
Condorcet: From Natural Philosophy to Social Mathematics (1982) * Cosimo Scarcella, Condorçet.
Condorcet ranking methods Some Condorcet methods produce not just a single winner, but a ranking of all candidates from first to last place.
Definition A Condorcet method is a voting system that will always elect the Condorcet winner; this is the candidate whom voters prefer to each other candidate, when compared to them one at a time.
In cases where there is a Condorcet Winner, and where IRV does not choose it, a majority would by definition prefer the Condorcet Winner to the IRV winner.
Single-method systems Some Condorcet methods use a single procedure that inherently meets the Condorcet criteria and, without any extra procedure, also resolves circular ambiguities when they arise.
Some Condorcet elections permit write-in candidates but, because this can be difficult to implement, software designed for conducting Condorcet elections often does not allow this option.
The criteria which Condorcet methods satisfy vary from one Condorcet method to another.
The methods that will—the Condorcet methods—can elect different winners when no candidate is a Condorcet winner.
With threshold voting, it is still possible to not elect the Condorcet winner and instead elect the Condorcet loser when they both exist.
Moreover, there is little reason to think Condorcet voting would lead to a multi-party democracy.
A candidate with that property is called a Condorcet winner.
As a result, the winner is Memphis, the Condorcet loser, with Chattanooga coming in second place.
Phrases with condorcet
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with condorcet
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- condorcet winner 29×
- the condorcet 25×
- condorcet methods 19×
- condorcet method 13×
- no condorcet 5×
- condorcet criterion 4×
- some condorcet 4×
- is condorcet 4×
- of condorcet 3×
- one condorcet 3×