Dioscorides (Stoic)

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Dioscorides (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.

Dedication

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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