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Journal articles on the topic "Sorites"

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DZHAFAROV, EHTIBAR N., and DAMIR D. DZHAFAROV. "Sorites Without Vagueness I: Classificatory Sorites." Theoria 76, no. 1 (March 2010): 4–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-2567.2009.01056.x.

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DZHAFAROV, EHTIBAR N., and DAMIR D. DZHAFAROV. "Sorites Without Vagueness II: Comparative Sorites." Theoria 76, no. 1 (March 2010): 25–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-2567.2009.01057.x.

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Deas, R. "Sorensen's sorites." Analysis 49, no. 1 (January 1, 1989): 26–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/analys/49.1.26.

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Sorensen, Roy. "Zande Sorites." Erkenntnis 79, S7 (October 23, 2013): 1315–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10670-013-9560-2.

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Hu, Ivan. "Defeasible Tolerance and the Sorites." Journal of Philosophy 117, no. 4 (2020): 181–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jphil2020117413.

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I propose a novel solution to the Sorites Paradox. The account vindicates the tolerance of vague predicates in a way that properly addresses the normativity of vagueness while avoiding sorites contradiction, by treating sorites reasoning as a type of defeasible reasoning. I show how this can be done within the setting of a nonmonotonic deontic logic. Central to the proposal is its deontic interpretation of tolerance. I draw a key distinction between two types of tolerance, based on different deontic notions, and show how the account captures key differences between these types of sorites reasoning. I compare the resulting theory to various existing contextualist proposals and argue that it better accounts for the normative aspects of sorites reasoning.

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Weber, Zach, and Mark Colyvan. "A Topological Sorites." Journal of Philosophy 107, no. 6 (2010): 311–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jphil2010107624.

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Stalnaker, Robert C. "Diagnosing Sorites arguments." THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science 33, no. 3 (November 6, 2018): 509. http://dx.doi.org/10.1387/theoria.19625.

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This is a discussion of Delia Fara’s theory of vagueness, and of its solution to the Sorites paradox, criticizing some of the details of the account, but agreeing that its central insight will be a part of any solution to the problem. I also consider a wider range of philosophical puzzles that involve arguments that are structurally similar to the argument of the Sorites paradox, and argue that the main ideas of her account of vagueness helps to respond to some of those puzzles.

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Schwartz, S. P. "Intuitionism and sorites." Analysis 47, no. 4 (October 1, 1987): 179–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/analys/47.4.179.

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Wilson, Fred. "Resemblance, Universals and Sorites: Comments on March on Sorting Out Sorites." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 17, no. 1 (March 1987): 175–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00455091.1987.10715908.

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In a recent paper, Peter March proposes to sort out the traditional sorites paradox by distinguishing two senses of ‘resemble.’ The paradox is generated in this way: we have the inference(a) A is the same colour as B(b) B is the same colour as CHence,(c) A is the same colour as Cwhile also having(d) A is not the same colour as C

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Buitrago, Daniel. "Propuesta de una Metodología con base en la Lógica Difusa para Explicar los Razonamientos de Tipo Sorites." Revista Colombiana de Filosofía de la Ciencia 18, no. 36 (June 11, 2018): 39–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.18270/rcfc.v18i36.2273.

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La paradoja de sorites es ampliamente conocida por mostrar las consecuencias contradictorias que pueden tener razonamientos que involucren términos vagos. Importantes filósofos de la escuela analítica como Bertrand Russell y Gottlob Frege apoyan fuertemente la idea de que las contradicciones surgidas en situaciones como la de la paradoja de sorites se deben en efecto a la vaguedad del lenguaje común. Este trabajo pretende proponer una metodología con base en la lógica difusa que muestra que los razonamientos de tipo sorites, a pesar de tener términos vagos, pueden ser consistentes y válidos.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Sorites"

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Needle, Justin Johann Hans-Hermann. "Ruling out the sorites: vagueness, rules, Wittgenstein." Thesis, University of Dundee, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.558707.

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Elias, Frank. "On the epistemic solution to the sorites paradox." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0026/MQ32099.pdf.

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Oms, Sardans Sergi. "On Common Solutions to the Liar and the Sorites." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/399925.

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In this dissertation I examine some of the most relevant proposals of common solutions to the Liar and the Sorites paradoxes. In order to do that, I present first a definition of what a paradox is so that, with this at hand, I can characterize in detail what should we expect from a common solution to a given collection of paradoxes. Next, I look into the reasons we might have to endorse a common solution to a group of paradoxes and some consequences are drawn with respect to Vann McGee's and Graham Priest's proposals to cope with both the Liar and the Sorites paradoxes, In the next chapters, three authors are examined in some detail. First, Jamie Tappenden's account is judged inappropriate, specially in the case of the Liar paradox. With respect to the Sorites, it is showed to be at least as problematic as Supervaluational approaches. Second, Paul Horwich's epistemicist proposal is examined with a special focus on the treatment of the Liar paradox. Horwich's account about how to construct his theory of truth is formalized and critically discussed with the use of a fixed-point construction. In the last chapter, I introduce and discuss some logics based on the work of Hartry Field that use two conditionals in a language with a truth predicate and vague predicates.
En aquesta tesi examino algunes de les propostes mes importants de solució comuna a les paradoxes del Mentider i la Sorites. Per tal de fer-ho, introdueixo, primer, una definició de la noció de paradoxa i, amb ella, caracteritzo en detall que cal esperar d'una solució comuna a un grup de paradoxes. A continuació, considero quines són les raons que podem tenir per tal d'adoptar una solució comuna a una col·lecció de paradoxes i extrec algunes conclusions respecte les propostes de Vann McGee i Graham Priest per fer front al Mentider i la Sorites. En els tres capítols següents, examino tres autors en detall. Primer, rebutjo la proposta de Jamie Tappenden per inapropiada, especialment en el cas del Mentider. Pel que fa a la Sorites, mostro que la teoria que Tappenden defensa es, al menys, tan problemàtica com les propostes superavaluacionistes. En segon lloc, examino la teoria epistemicista de Paul Horwich, amb especial atenció a la seva aplicació al mentider. A traves d'una construcció de punt fixe, formalitzo i discuteixo críticament la proposta de Horwich sabre com construir la seva teoria de la veritat. En l'últim capítol, introdueixo i discuteixo algunes lògiques, basades en les propostes de Hartry Field, que usen dos condicionals en llenguatges amb un predicat de veritat i predicats vagues.

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Petrillo, Paulo Roberto. "Raciocinio difuso via logicas moduladas : uma solução ao paradoxo do Sorites." [s.n.], 2005. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/281574.

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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas
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Resumo: Este trabalho estuda o conceito de vaguidade, analisando suas principais características e criticando a viabilidade do uso da Lógica Difusa a predicados vagos, mostrando diversos pontos discutíveis desta abordagem. Na tentativa de propor então uma lógica apropriada para tratar dos conceitos vagos, estuda-se as Lógicas Moduladas e conclui-se que estas se prestam bastante bem para expressar conceitos qualitativamente vagos. Através de quantificadores modulados aplicados a relações de pré-ordem propõe-se uma forma de definir predicados vagos que permitam uma nova abordagem a dilemas como o Paradoxo do Sorites. Mostra-se assim como o dilema sorítico se dissolve quando interpretado à luz das Lógicas Moduladas, e ao mesmo tempo sugere-se uma fundamentação alternativa, puramente qualitativa, aos predicados difusos
Abstract: This work studies the concept of vagueness, analyzing their main characteristics and criticizing the viability of Fuzzy Logic to express vague predicates. Vle conclude by showing several debatable points on this use of Fuzzy Logic. Looking for an appropriate logic to express vagueness we study the Modulated Logics, and conclude that they are better suited than Fuzzy Logic to express vague reasoning in the form of what we call qualitative vagueness. Through modulated quantifiers applied to restrict partial order relations we propose a new way to define vague predicates which allows us to approach the Sorites Paradox from a new point of view. We show how Sorites Paradox can be solved when interpreted by modulated logics, and offering an alternative, purely qualitative, foundation to vague predicates
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Agler, David Wells. "Vagueness and Its Boundaries: A Peircean Theory of Vagueness." Thesis, Connect to resource online, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/2101.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2010.
Title from screen (viewed on February 26, 2010). Department of Philosophy, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Cornelis de Waal, André De Tienne, Nathan R. Houser. Includes vitae. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-114).

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Daly, Helen. "Vagueness and Borderline Cases." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/145428.

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Vagueness is ubiquitous in natural language. It seems incompatible with classical, bivalent logic, which tells us that every statement is either true or false, and none is vaguely true. Yet we do manage to reason using vague natural language. In fact, the majority of our day-to-day reasoning involves vague terms and concepts. There is a puzzle here: how do we perform this remarkable feat of reasoning? I argue that vagueness is a kind of semantic indecision. In short, that means we cannot say exactly who is bald and who is not because we have never decided the precise meaning of the word 'bald'--there are some borderline cases in the middle, which might be bald or might not. That is a popular general strategy for addressing vagueness. Those who use it, however, do not often say what they mean by 'borderline case'. It is most frequently used in a loose way to refer to in-between items: those people who are neither clearly bald nor clearly not bald. But under that loose description, the notion of borderline cases is ambiguous, and some of its possible meanings create serious problems for semantic theories of vagueness.Here, I clarify the notion of a borderline case, so that borderline cases can be used profitably as a key element in a successful theory of vagueness. After carefully developing my account of borderline cases, I demonstrate its usefulness by proposing a theory of vagueness based upon it. My theory, vagueness as permission, explains how classical logic can be used to model even vague natural language.

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Zardini, Elia. "Living on the slippery slope : the nature, sources and logic of vagueness." Thesis, St Andrews, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/508.

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Martin, Makenna May. "Microbial Associations of Four Species of Algal Symbiont-Bearing Foraminifera from the Florida Reef Tract, USA." Scholar Commons, 2018. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7337.

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Marine microbiome research is a rapidly expanding field of study, as scientists investigate the functions of microbial associations in eukaryotic organisms. Foraminifera are among the most abundant shelled organisms in the oceans, yet little is known of their associated microbiomes. This study investigated microbes associated with four species of Foraminifera that host three kinds of algal endosymbionts. The Order Miliolida, Family Soritidae, was represented by three species: Archaias angulatus and Cyclorbiculina compressa, which both host chlorophyte symbionts, and Sorites orbiculus, which hosts dinoflagellate symbionts. The fourth species, Amphistegina gibbosa, belongs to the Order Rotaliida and hosts diatom endosymbionts. Bacterial DNA extraction was attempted from 5−8 specimens per species followed by amplification and amplicon sequencing of the V4 variable region of the 16S rRNA gene. Three Ar. angulatus specimens shared 177 Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs), and six C. compressa specimens shared 58 OTUs, of which 31 OTUs were found in all specimens of both species. Four S. orbiculus specimens shared 717 OTUs dominated by Proteobacteria, notably Amoebophilaceae. The three soritid species shared 26 OTUs, predominantly representing the bacterial families Rhodobacteraceae and Flavobacteriaceae. Since S. orbiculus shared 84% of the OTUs shared by Ar. angulatus and C. compressa, which host similar endosymbionts, phylogenetic relatedness of host taxa clearly had more influence on core microbiomes than the algal-symbiont taxon. The microbiomes of three normal-appearing and five partly-bleached specimens of Am. gibbosa varied widely, sharing only six OTUs, four of which represented Proteobacteria. All four species shared only four OTUs, three of which may have been contaminants. As the first known microbiome study to include western Atlantic/Caribbean benthic foraminifers that host algal endosymbionts, the results for Am. gibbosa revealed quite similar results to a recent study of the microbiome of Am. lobifera, a closely related Indo-Pacific taxon.

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Bacon, Andrew Jonathan. "Indeterminacy : an investigation into the Soritical and semantical paradoxes." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b4490a8c-0089-4c77-8d24-1ab1ca5baaf0.

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According to orthodoxy the study of the Soritical and semantical paradoxes belongs to the domain of the philosophy of language. To solve these paradoxes we need to investigate the nature of words like `heap' and `true.' In this thesis I criticise linguistic explanations of the state of ignorance we find ourselves in when confronted with indeterminate cases and develop a classical non-linguistic theory of indeterminacy in its stead. The view places the study of vagueness and indeterminacy squarely in epistemological terms, situating it within a theory of rational propositional attitudes. The resulting view is applied to a number of problems in the philosophy of vagueness and the semantic paradoxes.

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Åkerman, Jonas. "Extensions in Flux : An Essay on Vagueness and Context Sensitivity." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Filosofiska institutionen, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-30080.

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The extensions of vague predicates like ‘is bald’, ‘is tall’, and ‘is a heap’ apparently lack sharp boundaries, and this makes such predicates susceptible to soritical reasoning, i.e. reasoning that leads to some version of the notorious sorites paradox. This essay is concerned with a certain kind of theory of vagueness, according to which the symptoms and puzzles of vagueness should be accounted for in terms of a particular species of context sensitivity exhibited by vague expressions. The basic idea is that the extensions of vague predicates vary with certain contextual factors, and that this fact can explain why they appear to lack sharp boundaries. This kind of view is referred to as contextualism about vagueness. A detailed characterisation of contextualism about vagueness is given in chapter two and three. In chapter two, a generic version of contextualism about vagueness is developed, and some alternative forms of context sensitivity are introduced. In chapter three, the specific contextual factors appealed to by different contextualists are discussed. In chapter four, different contextualist diagnoses of the sorites paradox are considered, and found to be problematic in various ways. It is argued that contrary to what some of its proponents have claimed, contextualism about vagueness is not superior to other comparable theories of vagueness when it comes to explaining the appeal of soritical reasoning. In chapter five, a certain version of the sorites paradox, known as the forced march sorites, is discussed. It is argued that “data” about how speakers would behave in the forced march cannot lend any firm support to contextualism about vagueness. In chapter six, some problems concerning the instability of the contextual factors are considered. One problem is that contextualist diagnoses of the sorites which locate a fallacy of equivocation in the reasoning seem to render non-soritical reasoning fallacious as well. A model for treating this problem is suggested, but on closer consideration, it turns out to be problematic. Moreover, this model is of no help in solving the more general problem that even if classical logic remains valid for vague language on some contextualist views, the instability of the extensions of vague predicates makes it difficult to know when a certain piece of reasoning instantiates a valid argument form. Other difficulties arise with respect to speech reports and belief contents. Chapter seven concludes with a summary and some methodological remarks.

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Books on the topic "Sorites"

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Burns, Linda Claire. Vagueness: An investigation into natural languages and the Sorites Paradox. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991.

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Hyde, Dominic. Vagueness, logic, and ontology. Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate Pub., 2007.

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Goudemare, Sylvain, ed. Le Grand Troche: Sorite. Paris, France: Allia, 1988.

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Laiseca, Alberto. Los sorias. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Ediciones Simurg, 1998.

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Anderson, Poul. The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time. New York: iBooks (distributor Simon and Schuster), 2002.

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Willox, Ralph. Soriton riron kara kasekibun sūri e: De nouvelles perspectives. [Kyoto]: Kyōto Daigaku Sūri Kaiseki Kenkyūjo, 2006.

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Sori's harvest moon day: A story of Korea. Norwalk, Conn: Soundprints, 1999.

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Aquilina, George. Is-Sorijiet Ġerosolomitani Il-Knisja u l-Monasteru ta' Sant'Ursola Valletta. San Ġwann, Malta: Publishers Enterprises Group (PEG), 2004.

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Hamann, Soledad. El lugar donde vivimos: La región San Martín : Soritor, Shapaja, San Antonio de Cumbaza, Pongo del Caynarachi. Lima: Proyecto San Martín, 2000.

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Gakkai, Kokusai Ukiyoe, Edo Tōkyō Hakubutsukan, Nagoya-shi Hakubutsukan, and Yamaguchi Kenritsu Bijutsukan, eds. Dai Ukiyoe Ten: Ukiyo-e, a journey through the floating world : Kokusai Ukiyoe Gakkai soritsu 50-shunen kinen. [Tokyo?]: Yomiuri Shinbunsha, 2014.

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Book chapters on the topic "Sorites"

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Sainsbury, Mark, and Timothy Williamson. "Sorites." In A Companion to the Philosophy of Language, 734–64. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118972090.ch28.

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Bowen, Jack. "Sorites Fallacy." In Bad Arguments, 293–95. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119165811.ch66.

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Huemer, Michael. "The Sorites." In Paradox Lost, 45–88. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90490-0_3.

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Manekin, Charles H. "On Sorites." In The Logic of Gersonides, 148. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2614-4_19.

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Hyde, Dominic. "The Sorites Paradox." In Vagueness: A Guide, 1–17. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0375-9_1.

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Dupré, Ben. "Das Sorites-Paradoxon." In 50 Schlüsselideen Philosophie, 120–23. Heidelberg: Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8274-2395-5_31.

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Ripley, David. "Sorting out the Sorites." In Paraconsistency: Logic and Applications, 329–48. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4438-7_18.

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Trillas, Enric, and Itziar Garcìa-Honrado. "A Layperson Reflection on Sorites." In Fuzziness and Medicine: Philosophical Reflections and Application Systems in Health Care, 217–31. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36527-0_15.

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Maudlin, Tim. "Grading, Sorting, and the Sorites." In Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 141–68. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444307276.ch9.

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Flach, Susanne. "Constructionalization and the Sorites Paradox." In Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar, 46–67. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cal.27.01fla.

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Conference papers on the topic "Sorites"

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Andrade, Stéphanie Maia Freire de, Bruna Assi Hernandes, Júlia Câmara Cunha, and Tiago Barros Pontes e. Silva. "Soris: caderno informativo para garotas." In 9° Congresso Internacional de Design da Informação. São Paulo: Editora Blucher, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5151/9cidi-congic-6.0001.

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