Living with absurdity: A Nobleman's guide

A patient's guide to living confidently with chronic heart failure.

Dodgson's Rule Approximations and Absurdity

With the Dodgson rule, cloning the electorate can change the winner, which Young (1977) considers an “absurdity”. Removing this absurdity results in a new rule (Fishburn, 1977) for which we can compute the winner in polynomial time (Rothe et al., 2003), unlike the traditional Dodgson rule. We call this rule DC and introduce two new related rules (DR and D&). Dodgson did not explicitly propose t...

Social Structure: A Guide to Everyday Living

Sociology points to the many rules that guide behaviour in everyday situations. The more we learn about the rules of social interaction, the better we can play the game. CHAPTER Such everyday experiences are the focus of this chapter. The central concept is social interaction, the process by which people act and react in relation to others. We begin by presenting several important sociological ...

Full Reduction in the Face of Absurdity

Core calculi that model the essence of computations use full reduction semantics to be built on solid grounds. Expressive type systems for these calculi may use propositions to refine the notion of types, which allows abstraction over possibly inconsistent hypotheses. To preserve type soundness, reduction must then be delayed until logical hypotheses on which the computation depends have been p...

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