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Form of argument, in logic
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sorites
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n. (context logic rhetoric English) A series of propositions whereby each conclusion is taken as the subject of the next.
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Sorites may refer to: Polysyllogism , a chain of syllogisms Sorites paradox , also referred to as the paradox of the heap Sorites (journal) , a philosophy journal edited by Lorenzo Peña
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Sorites \So*ri"tes\, n. [L., from Gr. swrei`ths (sc. syllogismo`s), properly, heaped up (hence, a heap of syllogisms), fr. swro`s a heap.] (Logic) An abridged form of stating of syllogisms in a series of propositions so arranged that the predicate of each ...
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Two modes of abbreviating a Polysyllogism, are usually discussed, the Epicheirema and the Sorites.
The Sorites is a Polysyllogism in which the Conclusions, and even some of the Premises, are suppressed until the arguments end.
It is the shining merit of Goclenius to have restored the premises of the Sorites to the usual order of Fig.
Mill to construct this Sorites, he would have modified his doctrine of the wages-fund, and would have spared many critics the malignant joy of refuting him.
It was bound to become obsolescent sooner or later, just as sorites and paradigms and syllogisms became obsolete before it.
To each memorable image you attach a thought, a label, a category, a piece of the cosmic furniture, syllogisms, an enormous sorites, chains of apothegms, strings of hypallages, rosters of zeugmas, dances of hysteron proteron, apophantic logoi, hierarchic stoichea, processions of equinoxes and parallaxes, herbaria, genealogies of gymnosophists— and so on, to infinity.
To each memorable image you attach a thought, a label, a category, a piece of the cosmic furniture, syllogisms, an enormous sorites, chains of apothegms, strings of hypallages, rosters of zeugmas, dances of hysteron proteron, apophantic logoi, hierarchic stoichea, processions of equinoxes and parallaxes, herbaria, genealogies of gymnosophists—.
To each memorable image you attach a thought, a label, a category, a piece of the cosmic furniture, syllogisms, an enormous sorites, chains of apothegms, strings of hypallages, rosters of zeugmas, dances of hysteron proteron, apophantic logoi, hierarchic stoichea, processions of equinoxes and parallaxes, herbaria, genealogies of gymnosophists- and so on, to infinity.