Timeline for What's the solution to Sorites paradox?
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| Feb 24, 2023 at 3:30 | comment | added | Nelson | This can be visualized with larger objects. If you have around 6+ tennis balls, it can be considered a heap. You can imagine going from 6 to 1 easily, and it is unlikely anyone will call 1 tennis ball a "heap". Some people wouldn't even call 6 a heap. If 6 doesn't work, use a bigger number until it does. | |
| Feb 23, 2023 at 14:37 | comment | added | Taladris | @PeterCordes: the problem is that the definition of a fuzzy set is also arbitrary, with a non-countable set of membership functions. | |
| Feb 22, 2023 at 9:29 | comment | added | NotThatGuy | Reality contains many spectrums and continuous ranges, and we try to split those into concrete categories. That's the problem. | |
| Feb 22, 2023 at 6:48 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | Without resorting to change of context, you can also say that boolean logic requires a hard cutoff somewhere, which our human way of thinking resists. Fuzzy logic is a better match for our intuitive sense of how strongly something is or isn't a heap. (I still remember writing an essay on the Sorites paradox in 1st year undergrad philosophy 20 years ago, and making this argument. :) | |
| Feb 21, 2023 at 9:57 | history | answered | Professor Sushing | CC BY-SA 4.0 |