Dioscorides (Stoic)

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Dioscorides (Ancient Greek: Διοσκορίδης, fl. 225 BC), sometimes known as Dioscurides, was a Stoic philosopher, the father of Zeno of Tarsus and a pupil of Chrysippus. All other information has been lost.[1]

Dedication

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Chrysippus dedicated the following works to Dioscorides:

  • Four books on Probable Conjunctive Reasons
  • Five books on the Art of Reasoning and of Modes
  • A solution, according to the principles of the ancients, of the law of non-contradiction
  • Five volumes of Dialectic Arguments, with no solution
  • Two books on Probable Arguments bearing on Definitions
  • An essay on Rhetoric, spanning four books

References

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