imperfect understanding

Humans had an imperfect understanding of God’s will. They differed in their understanding of the correct course of action, where the correct course of action was to carry out God’s will. Voting was a procedure for aggregating these imperfect individual judgments into a more reliable group judgment.


Iain McLean, Haidee Lorrey, Voting in the Medieval Papacy and Religious Orders, Oxfor Univ. Working papers (2006)