Definitions for sorites

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sorites sor·i·tes

Spelling: [saw-rahy-teez, soh-]

IPA: /sɔˈraɪ tiz, soʊ-/

Sorites is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 199 anagrams from letters in sorites (eiorsst).

Definitions for sorites

noun

1. a form of argument having several premises and one conclusion, capable of being resolved into a chain of syllogisms, the conclusion of each of which is a premise of the next.

Origin of sorites

1545-55; Latin sōrītēs Greek sōreítēs literally, heaped, piled up, derivative of sōrós a heap

Examples for sorites

Now the rest is concluded by a sorites of foure degrees: As yr, is unto yi: so by the 12.

Among these logical puzzles are the following: sorites, the heap trick.

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.