Hellenistic Philosophy Introductory

116 //-3 But a 'poesis' is a poem which signifies in virtue of containing an imitation of divine and human affairs. A definition ...

22 /-3 groundlessly reject the others, because of a failure to understand what it is possible for a man to understand and what i ...

Logic and Theory of Knowledge 117 of lekta [things said], complete ones and propositions and syllogisms, and the account of inco ...

The Extant Letters 23 position and were unable to consider together the phenomena which one must accept as signs. The varying l ...

118 //-3 An imperative is an object which we say when we give an order, for example, u 'You, go to the streams of Inachus.' An ...

24 /-3 the heavenly bodies, which is then driven together by the motion of the clouds and winds and is expelled by the clouds; o ...

Logic and Theory of Knowledge 119 and among the non-simple propositions are the conditional and the para- conditional and the co ...

The Extant Letters 25 whatever way their production might take place owing to the movement of the wind; and when it [is forced d ...

120 //-3 it is day, it is light'. This is true; for 'it is not light', being the opposite of the conclusion, conflicts with 'it ...

26 /-3 Dew is produced by the assembling from the air of [particles] which become productive of this sort of moisture; and also ...

Logic and Theory of Knowledge 121 For the premiss is "if it is day, it is light"; the additional statement is "it is day"; and t ...

The Extant Letters 27 around which the rest rotates is stationary, as some people say, but also because there is a circular rota ...

122 It is false that it is day and it is night. It is day. Therefore, it is not night. //-3 Unsyllogistic are those which are pe ...

28 /-3 to 1-4 necessity to bear on the production of winter, nor does any divine nature sit around waiting for these animals to ...

Logic and Theory of Knowledge 123 The second indemonstrable is that which, through a conditional and the opposite of the consequ ...

The Extant Letters 29 views about the gods. The man who denies the gods of the many is not impious, but rather he who ascribes t ...

124 //-3 to //-5 Nobody. And the Hooded Man is like this ... [There is a lacuna here, which includes the introduction of the sor ...

30 1-4 and of the natural desires some are necessary and some merely natural; and of the necessary, some are necessary for happi ...

Logic and Theory of Knowledge 125 he placed that "grasp" which I just mentioned and said it was neither right nor wrong but that ...

The Extant Letters 31 some believe, either from ignorance and disagreement or from deliberate misinterpretation, but rather the ...