*Chocolate > Vanilla; Vanilla > Strawberry; Strawberry > Chocolate* Having real trouble grokking what is incoherent / irrational about this. Seems to me that e

*Chocolate > Vanilla; Vanilla > Strawberry; Strawberry > Chocolate* Having real trouble grokking what is incoherent / irrational about this. Seems to me that e.g. preferring Strawberry to Chocolate does not interact at all with my feelings about Vanilla in some other contest? Sure - given a choice between three flavours, this set of preferences gets you nowhere. But isn't that because we're comparing three objects, two at a time?