Sorites

The Sorites is a particularly lethal weapon when used in the field of semantics, threatening to erase the boundaries on which rigid definitions depend.

Diodorus Cronus Sedley, David 2009

The Sorites is the neatest and most compendious form that can be assumed by a train of reasoning.

Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock

The chain argument which we wrongly call the Sorites was also a favorite resource with the Stoics.

Guide to Stoicism St. George William Joseph Stock

The Sorites is a Polysyllogism in which the Conclusions, and even some of the Premises, are suppressed until the arguments end.

Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889

_Othere's Voyage_ (Oxford, 1807, 4to.p. 96. note), gives the following rather singular deduction for the appellation: Quenland was the land of the Amazons; the Amazons were fair and white-faced, therefore _Cwen-Sae_ the White Sea, as Forster had deduced it: and so, having satisfied himself with this kind of Sorites, follows pretty closely in Forster's wake.

Notes and Queries, Number 42, August 17, 1850 Various

We then played the Sorites paradox game again, this time with the number of students who notice that the Bible is on the desk is too many.

Freshwater: The defense rests - The Panda's Thumb 2010

Parenthetically, in this line of questioning Hamilton was using a variation of the Sorites paradox.

Freshwater: Board members, and the black bag - The Panda's Thumb 2010

In the case of a vague predicate F that is vulnerable to a Sorites paradox, the inconsistent propositions are that some things are

The Problem of the Many Weatherson, Brian 2009

Sorites paradoxes do not obviously help here, so perhaps the Problem reveals some deeper truths involving the metaphysics of material constitution, or the logic of statements involving identity.

The Problem of the Many Weatherson, Brian 2009

And some of Diodorus's dialectical paradoxes, most notably the Sorites, became integral to the methodology of the New Academy.

Diodorus Cronus Sedley, David 2009