Sorites Paradox¶
Hyde, D., & Raffman, D. (2018). Sorites Paradox. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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- The guarding discipline is to weight cases by frequency and impact and to act only on recurring difficulty — the boundary is genuinely vague at its edges, in the sense the sorites paradox
This sourceExplains the sorites paradox as arising from vague predicates with unclear boundaries of application.
- The guarding discipline is to weight cases by frequency and impact and to act only on recurring difficulty — the boundary is genuinely vague at its edges, in the sense the sorites paradox
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