destructive sorites
English
Noun
destructive sorites (plural destructive sorites)
- (logic) A form of reductio ad absurdum which involves the denial of the first of a series of dependent propositions as a consequence of the denial of the last.
- 1826, Richard Whately, Elements of Logic
- In a destructive Sorites, you, of course, go back from the denial of the last consequent to the denial of the first antecedent
- 1826, Richard Whately, Elements of Logic
References
destructive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913