10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SORITIC»
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This Sentence is False: An Introduction to Philosophical ...
Being heavier than the average weight of philosophers is a relative matter, yet
does not (on the surface) create a soritic puzzle. Suppose the average weight is
twelve stone. If Erskin is eighteen stone, then he is heavier than the average.
2
The Stoics on Ambiguity
I merely observe that the Stoic failure to recognise the enormous non-
epistemological difficulties associated with vagueness seems to have been
general in antiquity. Burnyeat 1982: 3i8ff. also notes the restriction of ancient
soritic arguments to ...
3
Language and Learning: Philosophy of Language in the ...
“Keeping quiet” covers, and must cover, silent assent even in the case of the
Soritic arguments, since it would be absurd and wrong to withhold assent from
the obvious truths leading up to the unclear premisses. As with Soritic ...
Dorothea Frede, Brad Inwood, 2005
If he is not, then the precisification is vulnerable to soritic reflection and is liable to
be completely undermined, so that the shepherd is incapable rationally of putting
any stone in place. But if he is committed to his precisification, the result is ...
Richard TUCK, Richard Tuck, 2009
5
Hebrew Union College Annual
("Ten Ascents") of the Shekinah from the Ark Cover to the wilderness in Aboth
deRabbi Nathan, ch. 34, A, Sch. p. 102. One of the three soritic instances in the
Hebrew Bible (apart from genealogical lists), Joel 1:3, Tell about it to your sons,
and ...
6
The United Service Magazine
According to the acervate Soritic scale — as Lycia is to Asia Minor, so is Xanthus
to Lycia ; but though occasional mentions are made by Ptolemy, Artemidorus,
Pliny, Strabo, and other big-wigs, our knowledge of the city of Xanthus is next to ...
7
Murray's Compendium of logic, with a corrected Lat. text, ...
Place in their proper Soritic order, the following propositions, and show which of
them are logically faulty : and why ? The Scriptures are confessedly agreeable to
truth : The Church of England is conformable to the Scriptures. A. B. is a divine of
...
Richard Murray (of Trinity coll, Dublin.), John Walker, 1847
... a soritic process such as this, the claims of Sir William Armstrong in 1858,
instead of resting on the 'origination of a system,' as described by Captain Jervis,
would dwindle down to the mere forging of a gun out of welded coil; whilst Mr.
Sir James Emerson Tennent, 1864
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The works of Rabelais, tr. [by sir T. Urquhart] with ...
Pantagruel. Panurge, Contradictory f. Quarrelsome f. Pedagogical f. Unmannerly
f. Daft f. Captious and sophistical f. Drunken £ Soritic f. Peevish £ Catholoproton f.
Prodigal £ Hoti and dioti f. Rash 1. Alphos and catati f. Plodding t Pantagrud.
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine
Many splendid Soritic arguments occur in the writings of St. Paul, e. g. : — "Now if
Christ be preached that He rose from the dead, how say some among you that
there is no resurrection of the dead P But if there be no resurrection of the dead, ...
