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==In philosophy== In [[philosophy]], the boiling frog story has been used as a way of explaining the [[sorites paradox]]. It describes a hypothetical heap of sand from which individual grains are removed one at a time, and asks if there is a specific point when it can no longer be defined as a heap.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Laurence |last=Goldstein |title=How to boil a live frog |journal=[[Analysis (journal)|Analysis]] |publisher=Oxford University Press |volume=60 |issue=266 |year=2000 |pages=170β178 |quote=The art of frog-boiling is an ancient one, and the correct procedure will emerge in the course of considering an ancient puzzle, the so-called 'Paradox of the Heap' or Sorites. |doi=10.1111/1467-8284.00220 }}</ref>
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