Posted: February 10th, 2017

Can the friendship relation among a finite group of people induce a partial order, such as a set inclusion? Explain why or why not.

What sort of relation is friendship, using the human or sociological meaning of the word? Is it necessarily reflexive, symmetric, antisymmetric, or transitive? Explain why or why not. Can the friendship relation among a finite group of people induce a partial order, such as a set inclusion? Explain why or why not.

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