Sorites Paradox
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- It's such a nice day out here Dan. I wish we could bask in the glory of the sun all day everyday.
- I wish that too Charlie ...
- Srijith Kannan PHIL130
- DAN! WATCH OUT FOR THAT SCORPION!
- AHHH!!
- NOOOOOO! WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE YOU DAN? WHY?!
- OUCH! CHARLIE IT HURTS!
- Anybody out there?! My friend Dan is lying on a heap of sand and is hurt badly!
- Charlie...what hurts more than this excruciating scorpion bite is the fact that you didn't think of the Sorites Paradox
- DAN! This is no time for philosophy. You're on the verge of dying!
- No Charlie..*cough cough*...don't say that.
- Philosophy is love...philosophy is life.
- Dan...You're dying and you want me to be more concerned about my word choice than YOU?
- Charlie, why did you choose to say "heap" of sand?
- Charlie...let me explain you the Sorites Paradox before I die. I don't want you to remember me as the guy who passed out in your backyard last Tuesday after singing multiple Taylor Swift songs.
- Alright buddy. Let this be your legacy...
- I know but you are on more than one grain of sand. Why can't I call it a heap then?
- One grain of sand is not enough to constitute a heap.
- Because if n grains of sand do not constitute a heap, then neither do n+1 grains of sand.
- Then by that logic, we can say that even a million grains of sand do not constitute a heap.
- Yes, that is the Sorites Paradox. It hurt me that you said "heap of sand" because there is vagueness in the language ("heap"). This is a response to the paradox called Supervaluationism.
- Oh. I've also heard that vagueness is in knowledge because we can never know the exact percentage of sand which is the divide between heap and non-heap. Our knowledge is imperfect!
- Yes, my friend. That is called Epistemicism and it is another response to the paradox. It seems like my time has come to leave this material world.
- DON'T LEAVE ME DAN! You've been my bro for so long...
- I love you bro...don't forget what I taught you about the Sorites Paradox
- You'll always live in my heart Dan...
- And so Charlie lived out the rest of his life as a self-proclaimed Philosopher to honor the memory of his friend...his bro...Dan.
- Srijith Kannan PHIL130
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