Sure, but very extreme examples aren’t interesting. The real question is how many pairs of individuals (or groups) can be covered by that partial ordering. Not very many, I’d say, unless your definition introduces some criteria for which there is ultimately no rational justification, in any meaningful sense of that word.
Sure, but very extreme examples aren’t interesting. The real question is how many pairs of individuals (or groups) can be covered by that partial ordering. Not very many, I’d say, unless your definition introduces some criteria for which there is ultimately no rational justification, in any meaningful sense of that word.