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Diogenes Laërtius · fl. 3rd century CE

Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.194 — Diogenes Laërtius on Chrysippus

Translation by R. D. Hicks (1925)

Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.194

Reported speech · Diogenes Laërtius on Chrysippus

Of Syllogisms, three books. Of the Construction of Moods, addressed to Stesagoras, two books. Comparison of the Judgements expressed in the Moods, one book. Of Reciprocal and Hypothetical Syllogisms, one book. To Agathon, or Of the Problems that remain, one book. On the Question what Premisses are capable of demonstrating a given Conclusion with the Aid of one or more Subsidiary Premisses, one book. Of Inferences, addressed to Aristagoras, one book. How the same Syllogism may be drawn up in several Moods, one book. Reply to the Objections brought against drawing out the same Argument syllogistically and without a Syllogism, two books. Reply to the Objections against the Analyses of Syllogisms, three books. Reply to Philo’s Work on Moods, addressed to Timostratus, one book. Collected Logical Writings, addressed to Timocrates and Philomathes: a Criticism of their Works on Moods and Syllogisms, one book.
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Continues the catalogue with titles on syllogisms, premises and conclusions, inferences, and replies to objections about how to arrange arguments.

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“Premisses”
— the starting statements of an argument
“Syllogisms”
— three-step logical arguments

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