Sorites paradoxes conclude that if one recognizes A as F, then one must recognize A+1 as F. This is logically true, but leads to falsehood. A rich man who is one penny less is still considered rich. Logically then, a rich man who loses all his pennies in intervals of one must still be considered rich. Humans, however, make empirical judgments, independently seeing the man as “rich” and then “not rich”, according to community-wide definitions.
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