The Sorites paradox, or paradox of the heap, arises from vague predicates. It demonstrates how a chain of seemingly logical…
A sophisma is a puzzling or paradoxical question, historically used in medieval logic to expose fallacies and the intricacies of…
A sophism is a deceptive or misleading argument, historically linked to ancient Greek Sophists. They were skilled rhetoricians known for…
The slingshot argument posits that all true statements refer to the same single reality. This challenges the correspondence theory of…
Situation semantics analyzes meaning based on situations, not just truth conditions in possible worlds. It focuses on how information is…
A situation is a set of circumstances or state of affairs to which truth-values of statements are relative. It's a…
A singular proposition asserts something about a specific, unique individual or object, distinguishing it from general statements about categories or…
Sharpening involves refining imprecise concepts into clearer, more defined terms. This process is crucial in fields like philosophy and linguistics…
S4 is a modal logic system defined by reflexivity and transitivity axioms for its accessibility relation. This system implies that…
Sentence letters, also known as propositional variables, are fundamental symbols in propositional logic. They represent simple declarative statements and act…