Soritical

So´rit´ic`al

Of or pertaining to a sorites; resembling a sorites.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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Among the things we want to model is the range of application of vague predicates relative to suitable soritical domains.

(20) Or perhaps one can deny that vague predicates have a range of application relative to soritical domains.

According to it, vague predicates do have a range of application relative to soritical domains, and, with a touch of Chrysippian silence, we can use sets to model that phenomenon.

THE QUIETIST'S GAMBIT

See generally LIARS AND HEARS (JC Beall ed., 2003) (examining soritical paradoxes in detail); Kevin M.

Death of paradox: the killer logic beneath the standards of proof

The author takes up a new line on the paraconsistent approach, to show that there is a close structural relationship between the breakdown of soritical progressions and contradiction.

Mind: October 2010, Vol. 119, No. 476

(8) According to Barnes (1982) there are two main conditions under which any argument is soritical: the series <[a.sub.1], ..., [a.sub.i]> must be ordered; the predicate 'F' must satisfy the following three constraints: (i) it must appear true of [a.sub.1], the first item in the series; (ii) it must appear false of [a.sub.i], the last item in the series; and (iii) each adjacent pair in the series, an and [a.sub.n+1], must be sufficiently similar as to appear indiscriminable in respect of 'F'-- that is, both an and [a.sub.n+1] appear to satisfy 'F' or neither do.

An experimental investigation of vagueness on the left side of balance sheet/Uma investigacao via experimento sobre a vaguidade no lado esquerdo do balanco patrimonial

Consider a soritical series of colour tiles, red at the left and slowly shifting to orange towards the right.

Vagueness, ignorance, and margin for error

Such an inference begs the question as to whether or not all vague terms are soritical (i.e.

Whilst not wishing to claim that all vague terms are soritical, he has suggested previously that most are.

Vagueness

We can run a soritical series from clear cases in which the subject's mental state has not been selected for, like in the case of S1, and clear cases in which it has, like Sn.

As we remove particles, the causal role changes slightly and changed functional states correspond to the different experiences in the soritical series (like the series of states I go through as I take a pain killer); a possibility that, as we have seen, is not available for TR.

Borderline experiences one cannot undergo

Such theories have been claimed to provide an attractive explanation of the appeal of soritical reasoning.