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Axioms of Distinction in Social Software

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‘Over a ten year period starting in the mid 90’s I became convinced that all these topics – game theory, economic design, voting theory – belonged to a common area which I called Social Software.’ – Rohit Parikh, [21]: p. 252

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    Only these 5 canonical axioms are considered here, others may be discussed as well – see [9].

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Hendricks, V.F. (2011). Axioms of Distinction in Social Software. In: van Benthem, J., Gupta, A., Pacuit, E. (eds) Games, Norms and Reasons. Synthese Library, vol 353. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0714-6_8

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