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1,000,000 grains of sand is a heap of sand (Premise 1) A heap of sand minus one grain is still a heap. (Premise 2) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_parad
by ganzuul 2y ago
1,000,000 grains of sand is a heap of sand (Premise 1)
A heap of sand minus one grain is still a heap. (Premise 2)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox
So one grain of sand is a heap and then when you remove that grain the heap disappears, but you only removed one grain from a heap so this is impossible because it is discontinuous. One solution is to wrap the problem in fuzzy logic with a 'heapness' measure.
Generalizing this type of solution we have a practice of wrapping paradoxes in other forms of logic. You would define an interface between these logics. For example in Trits (0,1,UNKNOWN) you could define an interface where you can change the type of NOT-UNKNOWN from Trit to Boolean. This would return at least some part of the entropy to the original domain, preserving a continuity. Wave Function Collapse is another example of translating from one logical domain to another.