Călborean, Marian: Form-Independence in the Sorites Paradox

_Revue Roumaine de Philosophie_ 70 (I):153-168. 2026While the Sorites paradox is often presented in a propositional conditional form, it can be recast using disjunctive, conjunctive, or modus tollens syllogism. This paper challenges Kit Fine’s claim that only the conjunctive form is motivated. All four propositional forms are effective because they express three deeper, first-order principles: (1) the familiar principle of Tolerance, (2) the often-implicit assumption of Monotonicity, and (3) a n