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Marcia R Pinheiro

A solution to the Sorites

The Sorites paradox, as it is known in the philosophical environment, is one of the oldest unsolved puzzles of humanity. It has been inspiring philosophers for centuries now because of its involvement with language, mathematics, philosophy, and humanity in general. In this paper, I try to expose an algebraic explanation for the Sorites defending the fact that the Sorites cannot have a purely logical solution because it is not a problem, it is a statement in itself. The only way to actually solve the Sorites is relating language to logic, is mixing things.

Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 0037-1998
Volume: 2006, 06/2006
Pages: 307 - 326

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