The Sorites Paradox
One grain of sand is not a heap. Adding a single grain never turns a non-heap into a heap. So heaps do not exist.
c. 350 BCE20 min read
British-American analytic philosophy and metaphysics
1946
Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University. His 1975 paper "Vagueness, Truth and Logic" gave supervaluationism its definitive form, showing how a vague language can be evaluated across all its admissible sharpenings while preserving the logical truths of classical logic. He has since moved away from that view himself.
One grain of sand is not a heap. Adding a single grain never turns a non-heap into a heap. So heaps do not exist.
c. 350 BCE20 min read