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How to use sorites in a sentence

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The conditional sorites is valid but unsound.
Yet 'careless driving' is susceptible to sorites reasoning precisely because those evaluative and contextual considerations give reason to conclude that it is careless to drive with bald tires.
The sorites paradox is the name given to a class of paradoxical arguments, also known as little-by-little arguments, which arise as a result of the indeterminacy surrounding limits of application of the predicates involved.
Whilst both polysyllogisms and sorites paradoxes are chain-arguments, the former need not be paradoxical in nature and the latter need not be syllogistic in form.
It is often said that in order to solve the sorites paradox, some parts of classical predicate logic must be given up.
To conclude that therefore all lions are carnivores is to construct a sorites argument.
Examples from Classical Literature
The sorites uses several middle terms by which the predicate of the last proposition is connected with the first subject.
Two modes of abbreviating a Polysyllogism, are usually discussed, the Epicheirema and the sorites.
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