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Webster 1913 Edition

Sorites

So-ri′tes

,
Noun.
[L., from Gr.
σωρείτησ
(sc.
συλλογισμός
), properly, heaped up (hence, a heap of syllogisms), fr.
σωρόσ
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.
☞ 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
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Sorites

SORI'TES

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Noun.
In logic, an argument where one proposition is accumulated on another. Thus, all men of revenge have their souls often uneasy. Uneasy souls are a plague to themselves. Now to be one's own plague is folly in the extreme.

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