10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SORITICAL»
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soritical in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Science and Speculation
be paradigmatically soritical, but the ancient texts provide us with plenty of sorites
which do not use 'few'. In Diogenes, then, 'few' stands as the representative of a
general class of predicate: how can that class - the class of soritical predicates ...
Jonathan Barnes, J. Brunschwig,
2005
2
Vagueness: A Guide: A Guide
'1-small' is soritical. If '1-small' is soritical then '2-small' is soritical. If '2-small' is
soritical then '3-small' is soritical. . . . If '(106 − 1)-small' is soritical then '106-small'
is soritical. ∴ '106-small' is soritical. holds for '2-small' and '3-small'. Each of ...
Giuseppina Ronzitti,
2011
3
Vagueness, Logic and Ontology
Having described this standard form, we can state conditions under which any
argument of this form is soritical.9 Firstly, the series (ax ... ak) must be ordered; for
example, scalps ordered according to number of hairs, heaps ordered according
...
4
Qualitative Mathematics for the Social Sciences: ...
In (3) we easily recognize a formal version of what we earlier defined as
comparative soritical sequences. Soritical sequences are clearly always chain-
matched and never well-matched.13 It is also clear that there are no soritical
sequences ...
5
The Naive Conception of Material Objects: A Defense
Soritical Indeterminacy Without Vague Expressions Those who wish to convince
the proponent of the naive conception of the impossibility of borderline
composition need to supply some further argument on behalf of premise B3 since
, ...
6
The Many Valued and Nonmonotonic Turn in Logic
Let F represent the soritical predicate (e.g. 'is bald', or 'does not make a heap')
and let the expression 'an' (where n is a natural number) represent a subject
expression in the series with regard to which F is soritical (e.g. 'a man with n hair(
s) on ...
Dov M. Gabbay, John Woods,
2007
7
The Continuum Companion to Philosophical Logic
In effect, the paradox is embraced (e.g., see [Dummett, 1975], [Wheeler, 1979], [
Unger, 1979] [Unger, 1980], or more recently, [Eklund, 2005] and [Gomez-
Torrente, 2010]).11 Typically, advocates of this view propose that soritical terms (
such as ...
Leon Horsten, Richard Pettigrew,
2011
8
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
Barnes (1982) states conditions under which any argument of this form is
soritical
. Initially, the series <a1, ..., ai> must be ordered; for example, scalps ordered
according to number of hairs, heaps ordered according to number of grains of ...
9
Unruly Words: A Study of Vague Language
My intuition is that if we call the altruistic monopolizer a borderline case of
niceness, then we are using the term 'borderline' with a sense different from the
soritical one. In particular, the unclarity at issue, as to whether being a good
listener and ...
10
The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy
This is meant by a passage of Galen where he says that a soritical argument may
be construed when we have to do with anything 'which is known from its name
and idea to have a measure of extent or multitude, such as the wave, the open ...