Article in the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, by Dominic Hyd ... The sorites paradox is the name given to a class of paradoxical arguments, also known as little-by-little arguments, which arise as a result of the indeterminacy surrounding limits of application of the predicates involved.
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Sorites may refer to: •Polysyllogism, a chain of syllogisms •Sorites paradox, a special case of polysyllogism also referred to as the paradox of the heap
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The Sorites paradox ( σωρός ( sōros ) being Greek for "heap" and σωρείτης ( sōreitēs ) a derived adjective meaning "heaped up") is a paradox that arises from vague predicates. The paradox o...
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Editorial E-address: Email: sorites@sorites.org; [with a subject containing Frege's forename] ... General Description of Sorites ... The collected Abstracts of papers already published in Sorites...
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on sorites (logic), in syllogistic, or traditional, logic, a chain of successive syllogisms—or units of argument that pass from two premises (a major and then a minor) to a conclusion—in the first figure (i.e., with the middle, or repeated, term as the subject of the major and the ...
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; Concatenated enthymemes. That is, a chain of claims and reasons which build upon one another. ... Sorites is sometimes seen as, and certainly can be, a logical fallacy, since the rapidity of claims and reasons does not allow the unstated assumptions behind each claim to be examined.
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Definition of sorites in the Online Dictionary. Meaning of sorites. Pronunciation of sorites. Translations of sorites. sorites synonyms, sorites antonyms. Information about sorites in the free online English dictionary and encyclopedia. ... Examples: sorites of flaming anthracite, 1871; sorites of facts, 1875;
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Electronic journal of philosophy devoted to the analytical tradition, broadly construed. Includes online issues, information for submitters. ... Editorial E-address: Email: sorites@sorites.org; [with a subject containing Frege's forename]
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Sorites (PDF File)
Sorites; SwrithV; A Digital Journal of Analytical Philosophy; Indexed and Abstracted in THE PHILOSOPHER’S INDEX; ISSN 1135-1349; Legal Deposit Registration: M 14867-1995; Editor: Lorenzo Peña; (CSIC [Spanish Academy of Sciences]);
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A sorites is a sequence of enthymemes in which the unstated conclusion of one syllogism is an unstated premise of the next syllogism. For example,
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