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Why Induction Is No Cure For Baldness
Author(s) -
Dolev Yuval
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
philosophical investigations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.172
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1467-9205
pISSN - 0190-0536
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9205.2004.t01-1-00230.x
Subject(s) - argument (complex analysis) , skepticism , epistemology , focus (optics) , philosophy , computer science , medicine , physics , optics
The paper aims at establishing that the premises of both the inductive and the multi‐premised versions of the sorites argument are not apparently acceptable and that, therefore, sorites‐type arguments do not constitute logical or conceptual paradoxes. Rather, it is suggested that such arguments are most properly and fruitfully described as skeptical challenges. A secondary goal of the paper is to focus attention to the unduly neglected inductive version of the argument.