Os sorites fenomenológico, cromático e identitário: paradoxos genuínos ou truques de desvio de atenção?

• Autores: Emerson Carlos Valcarenghi
• Localización: Aufklärung: revista de filosofia, ISSN-e 2318-9428, Vol. 12, Nº. 2, 2025, págs. 63-92
• Idioma: portugués
• DOI: 10.18012/arf.v12i2.73616
• Títulos paralelos:
  • The phenomenal, chromatic and identity sorites: genuine paradoxes or misdirection tricks?
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  • English

    We will show that the phenomenal, chromatic, and identity sorites are not genuine paradoxical arguments but sophisticated diversionary tricks. We will show that the alleged soritic arguments conceal information that is essential to the evaluation of these arguments. Because of this, the perplexity faced by individuals who encounter the alleged sorites is not that generated by the genuine paradoxes, but is merely the product of a maneuver that causes them to slide, without stopping, into the bizarre conclusions of those arguments.

  • português

    Mostraremos que os sorites fenomenológico, cromático e identitário não são argumentos paradoxais genuínos, mas sofisticados truques de desvio de atenção. Nós mostraremos que os alegados argumentos soríticos escamoteiam informações que são essenciais à avaliação desses argumentos. Por conta disso, a perplexidade enfrentada pelos indivíduos que se deparam com os alegados sorites não é aquela gerada pelos paradoxos genuínos, mas é apenas o produto de uma manobra que faz com eles escorreguem, sem escalas, para as conclusões bizarras daqueles argumentos.

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