Chrysippus’s response to diodorus’s master argument

Abstract

Chrysippus claims that some propositions perish. including some true conditionals whose consequent is impossible and antecedent is possible, to which he appeals against Diodorus’s Master Argument. On the standard interpretation. perished propositions lack truth values. And these conditionals are true at the same time as their antecedents arc possible and consequents impossible. But perished propositions are false, and Chrysippus’s conditionals are true when their antecedent and consequent arc possible, and false when their antecedent is possible and consequent impossible. The claim of the Master Argument that Chrysippus rejects, then, is stronger ihan usually supposed. © 1992 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.