The conditional sorites is valid but unsound. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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It is often said that in order to solve the sorites paradox, some parts of classical predicate logic must be given up. |
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To conclude that therefore all lions are carnivores is to construct a sorites argument. |
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