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destructive sorites en · NOUN

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1. A form of reductio ad absurdum which involves the denial of the first of a series of dependent propositions as a consequence of the denial of the last.
   • In a destructive Sorites, you, of course, go back from the denial of the last consequent to the denial of the first antecedent 1826, Richard Whately, Elements of Logic:

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