Sentence examples for Sorites from high-quality English sources.

• Here is a sorites argument for the elimination of stones:

• Such a Set, with the last Conclusion tacked on, is called a ‘Sorites’; the original Set of Propositions is called its ‘Premisses’; each of the intermediate Conclusions is called a ‘Partial Conclusion’ of the Sorites; the last Conclusion is called its ‘Complete Conclusion,’ or, more briefly, its ‘Conclusion’; the Genus, of which all the Terms are Species, is called its ‘Universe of Discourse’, or, more briefly, its ‘Univ.’; the Terms, used as Eliminands in the Syllogisms, are called its ‘Eliminands’; and the two Terms, which are retained, and therefore appear in the Conclusion, are called its ‘Retinends’.

• The basic problem is that contextualism is a psychologistic theory of the sorites.

• If vague terms were literally indexical, the sorites monger would have a strong reply.

• They develop an analogy between the sorites paradox and indexical sophistries such as:

• Attempts to solve the sorites paradox also throw issues of reference into sharp relief.

• The Sorites paradox is a paradox that on the surface does not involve self-reference at all.

• Consider a sorites with a base step that starts from a number too large for us to think about.

Use Sorites in a sentence.

• As will emerge, the forced march sorites plays an important role in several treatments of the paradox.

• However, ambiguity need not be characterized by borderline cases nor by sorites-series susceptibility.

• This straightforward response is open to the objection that the sorites monger could stabilize reference.

• An alternative truth degree based solution to the sorites paradox has been proposed by Hájek & Novák (2003).

• And we can construct a sorites series, and a sorites paradox for the application of the law:

• Some see unification as much more clearly indicated by the supposed fact that the semantic and sorites paradoxes themselves are “of a kind”.

• On this view, the challenge posed by the sorites paradox can be met by logical revision in the metatheory alone, and a type (2) response is advocated.

• The sorites paradox has traditionally been seen as unrelated in any substantially interesting way to the semantic and set-theoretic paradoxes of self-reference.

Sorites sentence examples

• Since epistemicists try to solve the sorites with little more than a resolute application of classical logic, they are methodologically committed to a partisan role for logic.

• The idea of truth as a graded notion has been applied to model vague predicates and to obtain a solution to the Sorites Paradox, the Paradox of the Heap (see the entry on the Sorites Paradox).

• There are many alternative theories of vagueness (see entry on vagueness), but there is a general agreement that the susceptibility to the sorites paradox (see entry on sorites paradox) is a main feature of vagueness.

• The latter view has been criticized for (among other things) applying only to the forced march paradox as opposed to the sorites proper; the sorites concerns a series of values (properties like colors, heights, ages, etc.) in the abstract, independently of anything to do with speakers’ verbal dispositions or behaviors.