different between sorites vs sorties

English

Etymology

From the Latin s?r?t?s, from the Ancient Greek ???????? (s?reít?s, “fallacy of the heap”), from ????? (s?rós, “heap”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s???a?ti?z/

Noun

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 2003, p. 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

Derived terms

• destructive sorites
• sorites paradox

See also

• syllogism

Anagrams

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

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (s?reít?s, “fallacy of the heap”), from ????? (s?rós, “heap”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /so??ri?.te?s/, [s?o???i?t?e?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /so?ri.tes/, [s???i?t??s]

Noun

s?r?t?s m (genitive s?r?tae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -?s).

Descendants

• English: sorites

References

• 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

English

Noun

sorties

1. plural of sortie

Verb

sorties

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sortie

Anagrams

• restios, rosiest, rossite, sorites, stories, trioses

Catalan

Verb

sorties

1. second-person singular imperfect indicative form of sortir

French

Noun

sorties f

1. plural of sortie

Anagrams

• rôtisse
• sirotes