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In their logical theory Stoic philosophers made use of a simple but important distinction alleged to hold among valid arguments, a distinction to which Aristotle had first called attention.1 They distinguished those arguments whose validity is evident from those whose validity is not evident and so needs to be demonstrated. The Stoics, having supposed that the distinction obtains, raise and answer the question, how does one demonstrate the validity of those arguments whose validity is not plain? The Stoics appear to have set forth both a discursive method of demonstration and a test for validity. In this paper I examine these two facets of Stoic logic.2
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Gould, J. (1974). Deduction in Stoic Logic. In: Corcoran, J. (eds) Ancient Logic and Its Modern Interpretations. Synthese Historical Library, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2130-2_8
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