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Essay

1997

Sorites Paradox

Diana Raffman & Dominic Hyde

Sets out the paradox that removing one grain from a heap never turns it into a non-heap, yet enough removals plainly do, and surveys why every proposed solution has to give up something that looks obviously true.

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Filed under Philosophy of Language in Philosophy.