 Condorcet and Arrow are not the only founding figures of social choice theory. Condorcet’s contemporary and co-national Jean-Charles de Borda (1733–1799) defended a voting system that is often seen as a prominent alternative to majority voting. The Borda count, formally defined later, avoids Condorcet’s paradox but violates one of Arrow’s conditions, the independence of irrelevant alternatives. Thus the debate between Condorcet and Borda is a precursor to some modern debates on how to respond to Arrow’s theorem.