destructive sorites

English

Noun

(logic) A process of reasoning which involves the denial of the first of a series of dependent propositions as a consequence of the denial of the last; a species of reductio ad absurdum.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for destructive sorites in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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