The Sorites

The Sorites paradox involves questions about vague concepts, like "heap" or "bald." For example, if you have a pile of grains and remove one grain at a time, at what point does it stop being a heap? Similarly, if someone has no hairs, they’re bald, but losing one hair doesn’t suddenly make them bald. The paradox highlights how small, incremental changes can be difficult to classify precisely, raising questions about how we define categories when boundaries are not clear-cut. It challenges our understanding of vagueness and the nature of boundary-setting in language.