I seem to remember the "heap paradox" being a very old one (given a heap and

I seem to remember the "heap paradox" being a very old one (given a heap and

I seem to remember the "heap paradox" being a very old one (given a heap and repeatedly removing a single grain of sand, when does it stop being a heap?). Yet I don't ever recall hearing a solution to it. No doubt there are different views of things, but is there at least a generally accepted solution to this paradox?

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