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Sorites may refer to:
Polysyllogism, a chain of syllogisms
Sorites paradox, also referred to as the paradox of the heap
Sorites (journal), a philosophy journal edited by Lorenzo Peña
Sorites (foram), a genus of foraminifera in family Soritidae
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The sorites paradox (/soʊˈraɪtiːz/; sometimes known as the paradox of the heap) is a paradox that results from vague predicates. A typical formulation...
Look up sorites in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sorites may refer to: Polysyllogism, a chain of syllogisms Sorites paradox, also referred to as the...
if we go out we will get cold. Look up sorites in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A sorites (plural: sorites) is a specific kind of polysyllogism in...
inscrutability of reference is also used in the sorites paradox. The classic example for the sorites paradox mentions a heap of wheat grains from which...
philosophy, the boiling frog story has been used as a way of explaining the sorites paradox. It describes a hypothetical heap of sand from which individual...
the impossible", 62b). Another example of this technique is found in the sorites paradox, where it was argued that if 1,000,000 grains of sand formed a...
premises are universal, hence so is the conclusion. A polysyllogism, or a sorites, is a form of argument in which a series of incomplete syllogisms is so...
(compilers), the solution to an analogous problem in computer science Catch-22 Sorites paradox "Essays and Miscellanies, by Plutarch". Project Gutenberg. Retrieved...
Did Alpha ignore his own father and treat him as a stranger? The Heap (sôritês) paradox: A single grain of sand is certainly not a heap. Nor is the addition...
Vagueness is commonly diagnosed by a predicate's ability to give rise to the Sorites paradox. Vagueness is separate from ambiguity, in which an expression has...
system Two-party system Rogerian argument Show election Slippery slope Sorites paradox Splitting (psychology) Trick question Strange loop § In cognitive...
and scientists have reflected about those kinds of problems. The ancient Sorites paradox first raised the logical problem of how we could exactly define...
False precision Moving the goalposts Quoting out of context Slippery slope Sorites paradox Syntactic ambiguity Questionable cause Animistic Furtive Correlation...
False precision Moving the goalposts Quoting out of context Slippery slope Sorites paradox Syntactic ambiguity Questionable cause Animistic Furtive Correlation...
False precision Moving the goalposts Quoting out of context Slippery slope Sorites paradox Syntactic ambiguity Questionable cause Animistic Furtive Correlation...
False precision Moving the goalposts Quoting out of context Slippery slope Sorites paradox Syntactic ambiguity Questionable cause Animistic Furtive Correlation...
False precision Moving the goalposts Quoting out of context Slippery slope Sorites paradox Syntactic ambiguity Questionable cause Animistic Furtive Correlation...
are they still the same ships? This paradox is a minor variation of the Sorites Paradox above, and has many variations itself. Both sides of the paradox...
" (Which is true if "tomorrow" eventually occurs.) Such puzzles as the Sorites paradox and the related continuum fallacy have raised doubt as to the applicability...
False precision Moving the goalposts Quoting out of context Slippery slope Sorites paradox Syntactic ambiguity Questionable cause Animistic Furtive Correlation...
Stuart C. (1998). "A Procedural Solution to the Unexpected Hanging and Sorites Paradoxes". Mind. 107 (428): 751–761. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.33.3808. doi:10...
derived from something, or a reaction to it, is not the thing itself. Sorites paradox Theseus' paradox Identity of indiscernibles National symbol Neon...
Goclenian Sorites. In the words of the British logician Carveth Read: "It is the shining merit of Goclenius to have restored the Premises of the Sorites to the...
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