The whole must needs follow by a sorites or induction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

The following argument form of the sorites was common.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sorites Paradox] Reference

Innumerable sorites paradoxes can be expressed in this way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sorites Paradox] Reference

All contextualists accuse the sorites monger of equivocating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vagueness] Reference

For the regular sorites the following rules may be laid down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deductive Logic] Reference

In this way then the sorites paradoxes are said to be defused.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sorites Paradox] Reference

˜Heaps of gluts and Hyde-ing the sorites™, Mind 110: 401-8.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sorites Paradox] Reference

Stanley suggests the following as an example of such a sorites.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sorites Paradox] Reference

Conditional sorites paradoxes are, contrary to appearances, sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sorites Paradox] Reference

Jason Stanley suggests that the sorites monger employ the premise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vagueness] Reference

Both the instances chosen belong to the progressive order of sorites.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deductive Logic] Reference

Why? he would ask, making use of the sorites or syllogism of Zeno and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference

˜On Soames's solution to the sorites paradox™, Analysis 60: 328-34.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sorites Paradox] Reference

In the irregular sorites the syllogisms may fall into different figures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deductive Logic] Reference

It is not known whether Eubulides actually invented the sorites puzzles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sorites Paradox] Reference

Kindly observe the neat gradations, the artistic sorites of Mpongwe lies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference

Vagueness: An investigation into natural languages and the sorites paradox.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sorites Paradox] Reference

Vagueness, in contrast, precipitates a profound problem: the sorites paradox.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vagueness] Reference

Officially, the supervaluationist rejects the induction step of the sorites argument.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vagueness] Reference

Attempts to solve the sorites paradox also throw issues of reference into sharp relief.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sorites Paradox] Reference

Every form of deviant logic has been applied in the hope of resolving the sorites paradox.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vagueness] Reference

˜The liar and sorites paradoxes: towards a unified treatment™, Journal of Philosophy 90.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sorites Paradox] Reference

And we can construct a sorites series, and a sorites paradox for the application of the law.    From Wordnik.com.  [Law and Language] Reference

This is subject to the same laws as the simple sorites, to which it is immediately reducible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deductive Logic] Reference

They favor solving the sorites paradox by replacing standard logic with an earthier deviant logic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vagueness] Reference

With the foregoing analysis of the conditions for sorites susceptibility it is easy to verify that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sorites Paradox] Reference

On this approach the conditional form of the sorites is valid and a type (2) response is advocated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sorites Paradox] Reference

But they insist that the sorites paradox illustrates how tiny errors can accumulate into a big error.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vagueness] Reference

Here is a concrete example of the two kinds of sorites, resolved each into its component syllogisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deductive Logic] Reference

This straightforward response is open to the objection that the sorites monger could stabilize reference.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vagueness] Reference

Another concern is that some sorites involve predicates that do not give us an opportunity to equivocate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vagueness] Reference

The syllogisms which compose a regular sorites, whether progressive or regressive, will always be in the first figure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deductive Logic] Reference

Since I have failed to clarify my argument against your concept of “reading experience,” let me reduce it to a sorites.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whether true or not] Reference

To accept all sorites as sound requires assent to the additional claim that, since one grain of wheat makes a heap, any number do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sorites Paradox] Reference

In the regressive sorites the proposition which stands first is the only one which appears as a major premiss in the expanded form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deductive Logic] Reference

The regressive sorites, it will be observed, consists of the same propositions as the progressive one, only written in reverse order.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deductive Logic] Reference

When expanded, the sorites is found to contain as many syllogisms as there are propositions intermediate between the first and the last.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deductive Logic] Reference

Let's have a sorites by all means, though they are all new to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of John Bull] Reference

Pauthier calls the paragraphs where they occur instances of the sorites, or abridged syllogism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1] Reference