英和和英

発音

• IPA: /səˈɹaɪtiːz/

名詞

sorites (plural sorites)

1. (logic, rhetoric) A series of propositions whereby each conclusion is taken as the subject of the next.
   • 1760, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin, published 2003, page 130:

     Why?—he would ask, making use of the sorites or syllogism of Zeno and Chrysippus without knowing it belonged to them.—Why? why are we a ruined people?—Because we are corrupted.——Whence is it, dear Sir, that we are corrupted?—Because we are needy […] ——And wherefore, he would add,—are we needy?——From the neglect, he would answer

派生語

• destructive sorites
• Goclenian sorites
• sorites paradox

参考

• syllogism

名詞

sorites

1. plural of sorite

アナグラム

• sorties, stories, Sorties, rossite, trioses, oisters, rosiest, restios, roestis

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [soːˈriː.teːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [soˈriː.t̪es]

名詞

sōrītēs m (genitive sōrītae); first declension

1. sorites; a logical sophism formed by an accumulation of arguments

語形変化

First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ēs).

派生した語

• English: sorites

参照

• “sorites”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sorites”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sorites”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.