| It is often said that in order to solve the sorites paradox, some parts of classical predicate logic must be given up. |
| The conditional sorites is valid but unsound. |
| To conclude that therefore all lions are carnivores is to construct a sorites argument. |
| 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. |
| 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 uses several middle terms by which the predicate of the last proposition is connected with the first subject. |
