Argument
Sorites paradox
Overview
paradox that a heap of sand and a heap of sand minus one grain is also a heap, then one grain of sand is a heap
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Philosophers who discussed Sorites paradox
Related ideas
- First-order logic
- Counterexample
- Truth value
- Informal fallacy
- Synthese
- Logical connective
- Predicate (grammar)
- Mathematical induction
- Modus ponens
- A. J. Ayer
- Validity (logic)
- Jonathan Barnes
- Probability
- Philosophical Investigations
- Pegasus
- Principle of bivalence
- Paradox
- Singular term
- Stanford University
- Crispin Wright
- Timothy Williamson
- Vagueness
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Logical consequence
Place in the tradition
Part of Dialetheism.