sorites paradox

paradox that a heap of sand and a heap of sand minus one grain is also a heap, then one grain of sand is a heap
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sorites paradox

Summary

sorites paradox is a paradox[1]. It draws 625 Wikipedia views per month (paradox category, ranking #13 of 104).[2]

Key Facts

  • sorites paradox's image is recorded as Sorites paradox heap question.png[3].
  • sorites paradox's instance of is recorded as paradox[4].
  • sorites paradox's GND ID is recorded as 4448398-3[5].
  • sorites paradox's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh91005080[6].
  • sorites paradox's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12422987d[7].
  • sorites paradox's IdRef ID is recorded as 033355754[8].
  • sorites paradox's Commons category is recorded as Sorites paradox[9].
  • sorites paradox's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01hpvl[10].
  • sorites paradox's main subject is recorded as sand[11].
  • sorites paradox's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • sorites paradox's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • sorites paradox's described by source is recorded as Lean Logic[14].
  • sorites paradox's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[15].
  • sorites paradox's described by source is recorded as Sorites paradox and conscious experience[16].
  • sorites paradox's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/sorites-problem[17].
  • sorites paradox's BBC Things ID is recorded as e9f45e90-4352-42dc-ad1f-0729757144c5[18].
  • sorites paradox's studied by is recorded as logic[19].
  • sorites paradox's MathWorld ID is recorded as SoritesParadox[20].
  • sorites paradox's Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID is recorded as sorites-paradox[21].
  • sorites paradox's PhilPapers topic is recorded as sorites-paradox[22].
  • sorites paradox's Treccani ID is recorded as sorite[23].
  • sorites paradox's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as sorites-paradox[24].
  • sorites paradox's Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana ID is recorded as sorite[25].
  • sorites paradox's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[26].
  • sorites paradox's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 67479305[27].

Why It Matters

sorites paradox draws 625 Wikipedia views per month (paradox category, ranking #13 of 104).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . RAMEAU. Retrieved . data.bnf.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . BnF authorities. Retrieved . data.bnf.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . SUDOC. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Treccani's Enciclopedia on line. Retrieved . treccani.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Enciclopedia Treccani. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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