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Sorites

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Sorites, a form of argument which consists in consolidating several syllogisms (see SYLLOGISM), in which the subject of the minor premiss is the same, so as to suppress the conclusion in every syllogism but the last, and the minor premiss in every syllogism but the first.

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