Sorites vs Porites - What's the difference?
sorites | porites |
(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:
As nouns the difference between sorites and porites
is that sorites is (logic|rhetoric) a series of propositions whereby each conclusion is taken as the subject of the next while porites is .sorites
English
Noun
(sorites)- 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