 Preferences are assumed to be quasitransitive (rather than transitive) in some economic contexts.The classic example is a person indifferent between 7 and 8 grams of sugar and indifferent between 8 and 9 grams of sugar, but who prefers 9 grams of sugar to 7.Similarly, the Sorites paradox can be resolved by weakening assumed transitivity of certain relations to quasitransitivity.