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Sextus M 8.263 (SVF 2.363) [11-28]
According to them, the incorporeal can neither do anything nor have
anything done to it.Cicero Academica 1.39 (SVF 1.90) [11-29]
[Zeno] disagreed with the same men [Peripatetics and Academics] in
that he thought it totally impossible for anything to be effected by what
lacked body; ... and indeed he held that whatever effected something
or was affected by something must be body.Aetius 1.10.5 (= Dox. Gr. p. 309; SVF 2.360) [11-30]
Zeno's followers, the Stoics, said that the Ideas [i.e., Platonic Forms]
were our own thoughts.Syrianus Comm. On Aristotle's Metaphysics
1078b12, CIAG 6.1, p. 105.22-23 (SVF 2.364)[11-31]... that the Forms were not introduced, as Chrysippus and Arche-
demus and the majority of the Stoics thought, by these godlike men
[Socrates, Plato, the Parmenideans, the Pythagoreans] to account for our
customary use of the names of things [i.e., common nouns] ...Seneca Letters on Ethics 58.11-15 (SVF 2.332) [11-32]
- Moreover, there is something higher than body; for we say that
some things are corporeal, some incorporeal. What, therefore, is that
from which these are derived? That to which we just now assigned the
technical term 'that which is'. It will be divided into species so that we
say 'that which is' is either corporeal or incorporeal. 12 .... That genus,
'that which is', has no genus above it; it is the first principle of things;
everything is subordinate to it. 13. But the Stoics want to set yet another
genus above this one, which is a higher principle; I will speak of it now
... 15. Some Stoics held that the first genus is the "something"; I shall
add an explanation of why they held this. They say that in the nature
of things, some things are and some are not; and nature also includes
those things which are not but which occur to our mind, such as Centaurs,
Giants and whatever, being formed by a false concept, begins to take on
a certain image [in our minds], although it does not have substance.