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I. M. R. Pinheiro1
escaping them.
1. Introduction:
One could easily think that there is no need to even think about what a
solution for a philosophical problem is. However, we could not find any
not stated in top objective sort of lingo should not be scientific enough
to be debated over.
Not having found any other article on the subject, we have decided to
already been stated by someone else, but with our own words.
literature so far;
d) Conclusions;
e) References.
Basically, before departing to facing solutions, one must make sure the
to be well addressed.
be irrelevant by the writer of the problem are spelled out. Why this is
will be able to ‘enter’ the brains of the writer, and it is simply unfair not
to provide the possible solver of the problem with the same tools
which are available for the writer of it when time to try to solve it has
come. Enthymemes are the same as silent talk, may easily differ from
people on Earth, for Science also must worry about priority and
which is not that relevant if there is another one, more relevant, which
many more innovative solutions than the others. This proves that a
That saves time both of those addressing the problem and of those
proposing it, or even of those checking its proposed solutions, what is,
posed are satisfied, one may then check the possible solution for a
problem in Philosophy.
3. On the Sorites and well-posedness:
able to address a problem that is not well understood. Yet, many will
try and will go wrong, as it has happened with the Sorites until we
the one from which people had been seeing it that far.
Seen from the most basic and objective point of view, the Sorites
many would put it). If the short sequence of objects, which vary by
one grain, and are indiscernible for the eyes, is entirely contained in a
after solved, the Parallax mistake, for instance. Such means that we
would see two things at once and would not be able to tell which one is
puts it that way! If they were seeing both a heap and a non-heap,
however, at the same time, then it would have been a paradox of sight
for the share of the sequence where that has happened. Notice that it
will never happen for its totality, therefore we are unable to state there
work out which sight is correct, just like in the Parallax Mistake. Such
The reason why the Sorites problem has been presented wrongly so
or ethical, way.
assume that the audience always understands the problem the way it
for instance, such as the Liar Paradox (If I told you I always lie, would
you believe me?), but there are no truth values involved. Even to
make the presentation of the Sorites problem scientific, there is no
need to assign any truth values to each one of its parts; it is all about
on a certain scope of definition for a word, that is, the actual question
scientific way) is: What is the most precise definition for the word X –
paradox demands a conflict of some sort, and such does not seem to
The linguists, therefore, are the only people who would really be
But if that is what they usually do, how can that possibly be a
does not apply to that object ever, until there is no confusion anymore
they have not done so far (that decision would be ridiculous and non-
scientific, and we did find at least one dictionary where the author has
included such, probably for willing to solve the Sorites and noticing
demand every word in the dictionary to contain a dual in it: Red and
non-red, man and non-man, and etc. It is obvious the case that
printing the dictionary with that term or not, and they have not
simply logical). What gets defined is what a `heap’ is, the words `non-
whole World, or the majority of it, wishes to say that a `heap’ is not a
anything, that is what the linguists will take it to be, so that references
are not immutable, or even the referents, and one may easily find
posed. One may easily notice that just by clearing it from any possible
This way, one could be stating that `adding one grain of sand to the
previous amount of sand does not make a difference' but one would
also have to state that `adding this x amounts of grains of sand to the
first bunch of sand does make a difference' (when the area of no clear
element already, to compare with the first one, or any of the others in
the blurred area, where it all seems to fit in the same scope of
made it clear that the solution can only be (and proved it) in the scope
is, in terms of it being totally human, and may only be addressed from
the linguists’ solution (so far their decision, which, if changed, may go
for the vast majority of the people in the audience, in terms of uttering
either `it is’ or `it is not’, with no mistake, or they does not know
colors), then it does not apply! This is precisely how we described our
problem, faced by centuries now, that the linguists writing our lexicons
deal with, all holding very solid theories about its solution.
declare it is?
specific and old profession, so that the Sorites could never be seen as
wish, a very nice name for what they must do, in their work, when
to a philosophical problem:
the problem belongs to, and into which generic group of sub-
Philosophy, the entire problem should now hold very logical and simple
description/sequence of steps.
2.2) if the group is, indeed, Philosophy, and the problem has not been
First, one tries the top possible reduction, the most objective way of
describing it, once that should be the objective of Science. In the case
Because any logic has got a system of reasoning assigned to it, and
from inside of the most reduced area to which the problem belongs to
in Philosophy?
applies.
The solver must then have explicitly addressed those for their solution
If there never has been any strong objection to the theories of the
solution, or the theories have been popularly applied for many years in
prove it is such with our own good eyes. Same will never happen with
actually challenge you to think about this. The so-called Liar Paradox,
is also the case that, if re-written properly, it will generate the same
sort of reasoning that we expose here, or very similar one for its
that speaker should always be false, apart from the particular time
they have uttered that they always lied. Therefore, there is absolutely
mental attitude, as for a recipe, for that particular person who is the
object of the speech of the first one. If they also lie when they say
they always lie, then they do say the truth sometimes. In this case,
the assertion, we are still following the `lexicon reasoning', that of not
`Science’).
states that adding a single grain does not make any difference, and
the conclusion. All we can say is that the premise does vary, but there
two grains, and not one anymore, if you regard the first step.
Therefore, the premise is always being rebuilt, in what regards the first
step, but remains the same in what regards the previous one, so that
referential. It is all true and fine. If one thinks it is the ontology of the
the first and the last step in the Sorites so that nobody, in the whole
splitting one end from the other. However, is it really plausible that we
about the relationship between our minds and the object? Quite
When the inconsistencies are found inside of the human mind, all we
understanding and will to be married, why would people ever fail, once
they know precisely what the other wants, or expects, and how to do it
right? We are sorry to think that there are a lot of superficial thinkers
with this sort of thing for so many years now. It is certainly true that
Psychiatry and Psychology will explain it all: The need that the whole
are purely human, too much wrong Army oriented formation (war,
useful...Thus, the Sorites may become a paradox for those who see
Nevertheless, it is clearly not a paradox for those beings who are able
3. `One grain of sand does not make any difference' is/is not a
values of two of the premises, once the grain step is always true.
sense: There is a definite line where the term should stop being
applied, or start, there is no doubt as to where the line lies for each
person being submitted to the Sorites, and there is allowance for each
person to have their own solution for each predicate, and each object,
imposition to the general public and even people with problems in the
assigned, by both the 'utterer' and our translation system, are the
we actually believe this can only be the most serious mistake of all.
First of all, there is no way a person can believe they are, ever,
as well as cultural background, that is, with top similarities and things
in common, will ever know, for sure, and with certainty, that they have
got the idea intended by the 'utterer', just like in the kids' game:
kids' games to explain? Talk about that with the greatest philosophers
of all, and also our best logician ever: Jesus Christ, son of God, That
who knows it all...even what you think nobody else knows, or sees!!! -
Apart from that, some people might write that another account
actually states that the object itself has got an ontology and,
humans - and, therefore, not able to agree in our judgments over the
World objects. This just means that the ontology of the object is
name of God is doubted until nowadays. God Himself, in the own Bible,
Jacob’ (Matthew 22:32), that is, God, Himself, feels the need of
meant is that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, actually knew who God is,
and what He is precisely like, but we are just going to dream about it,
and always state that that is the `God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob'.
agreement with our educated observation. But we can easily say that
that object is of the `red' stated by `Carla, Marcia, and Pedro’, for
The color has to be attached to an observer, then, just like our God
from the Bible. With this development, all we meant is that the
Wittgenstein, Russell, and all the best researchers in the field, skipping
their technical lingo. We are basically writing about referent and object
think the most is the higher-order vagueness issue. Basically, the best
criticism that could be made, in what regards that and our solution, is
that the reduction of our choices to No and Yes would bear some lack
reasoning. The simple fact that we tell people the problem has
better next time. Notwithstanding, our solution does not bring a new
logic: It simply explains all the different logical systems involved and
the logical share of the human reasoning, which may not be found
overlooking of the fact that language is far more than the logical
systems in place, and not all of it may be translated into logical lingo.
possible. It is obvious then that, even if one has two native English
feelings, when they speak, to grasp the whole meaning behind it, so
that even English-English communication is almost impossible, in
One may state they are communicating with others, but all a
There are even books, and books, written on the subject on how
just a far more reduced scope of symbols. If a logical system has got
writing. And it is obviously the case that there lies the beauty of
to be' has been giving way to an infinite number of texts around the
described had ever been imagined before regarding what was wrongly
the own word `paradox' but we think that there is no doubt about the
Because the dictionary must be right, it can only be the case that the
receptor was induced to think wrongly and, therefore, there was some
to the rest of the Universe so far, got the opposite message, so that
the transmitter.
Language, that is, with all the specific lingo and scholarship it
One could write a whole library of books with just that inspirational
accept that Language is far more than Logic and Mathematics, not the
other way around. One could easily say that Mathematics is the most
there are several mathematicians who are well understood if they give
Pure Language is the messiest one, in which only by means of luck one
have proposed that logicians worry about things they can do and are
actually useful to human kind. For that end, we advise the reader to
check on [9].
That is because there are several things in this World: It is obvious
that calculations would not be the only ones where Logic does apply.
The problem, of course, is finding out what, amongst all this universe,
money for any result X ever gets. Basically, mental diseases seem a
wonderful way to go, even if to prove that, with some mental labels, it
is better that they only exist in theory and are never applied to a
perfect, like God, we should just bow for it, and respect… Let go.
8. Notes
Note 1 It is not that Dr Casti has declared that this is his intention,
literally. We simply infer that from the way he is able to deal with
[2].
Note 2 Odd enough, we had this really well known Philosopher, whose
terms. Sometimes, one must just do it, given that those who truly
case that the problem escapes its scope completely and any trial of
refer to [6].
mentioned in [7].
Note 8 Notice the difference, for us, between the set of all possible
philosophical-science, Logic.
Sorites does not state, but assumes that a proposition has been
understood in the middle of each further progression: If I add one
not that it does not make any difference if added to another member
of the sequence, only in that particular step, when one result is next to
the other in the sequence (that is, uttering `a single grain of sand,
therefore, being added to the previous amount of sand does not make
added to any amount of sand does not make any difference' is a wrong
wrong way, and that is basic scientific reasoning, the solution is not
this stage, one could easily think of why we simply did not forget
about the problem. So it is not a problem at all. However, if a small
stated as `a single grain of sand added will not make any difference if
be, resulting global assertion `a single grain of sand added will not
be added and, in this case, we would never face heap and non-heap in
stage, once more, all we, and others, did might sound useless.
and considers the only valid one, all the reasoning used by us is still
valid, so that we are still the only ones to hold an actual solution (it
does not matter what) to the problem, if ever stated correctly.
Note 11 In [12], one will find the word paradox defined with the
wording below:
phases.
bin/audio.pl?parall02.wav=parallax')Pronunciation: \'pa-rə-ˌlaks\
different points not on a straight line with the object; especially : the
[2] Casti, J. Five Golden Rules. John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 1997.