Talk:Intransitivity

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[edit] On having 3 definitions

The present stage of the article betrays some confusion on my part. In the article as I found it, the term was used purely to refer to the presence of 'preference ordering loops'. I was quite surprised to see this, since it adds a third distinct meaning to the term, besides the two I was already familiar with (nontransitivity and antitransitivity).

Now Google provides confirmations for all three uses of the term. Therefore I strongly feel we have to recognize all three of them and explain their differences, rather than picking one of them, as a textbook would do.

But I didn't have too much time so I only added a "formal definition" section in which the three concepts are defined and exemplified. The article needs restructuring. Please help ...

Rp 15:39, 21 July 2006 (UTC)