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The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 one that precedes forms the subject of each one that follows, and the conclusion unites the subject of the first proposition with the predicate of the last proposition, as in following example;
The soul is a thinking agent; A thinking agent can not be severed into parts; That which can not be severed can not be destroyed; Therefore the soul can not be destroyed.
Note: When the series is arranged in the reverse order, it is called the Goclenian sorites, from Goclenius, a philosopher of the sixteenth century.
Destructive sorities. See under Destructive.
Wiktionary
n. (context logic rhetoric English) A series of propositions whereby each conclusion is taken as the subject of the next.
Wikipedia
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
Sorites is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering analytic philosophy. It is indexed by The Philosopher's Index.
Category:Analytic philosophy Category:Philosophy journals Category:English-language journals
Usage examples of "sorites".
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.