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Tiptean Deenatel ts ets Stet tien aates Saar unten a Compe Sen ce eves sot ton ers Pani ste Caras Uy Poet Setppette a aa Cad ce ce Ss TREC nig ery Pc wc ebb Pe ‘gud we non ie ed de mn pte Soom ins Seca idees eR Sas Iai qenens pe at nod ts Penpals roe ee ri ee mg Coty, ey Pomme Soni Tet denies sap cofe SIS ince md ar Coby Coy Pe Science and Speculation Studies in Hellenistic theory and practice cticed by Jonathan Barnes ‘a a, Ore Myles Burnyeat secon Cote ‘Malcolm Schofield Si cg Cate CCambenige Universiey Brest Comrie London "New York New Rochelle Ndboume Sponey Edivions de la Maison des Sciences de T Homme Pans 28 ar BURNYEAT too obvious that their authors are not logicians. Nor are the Epicureans much intrested in logic (in the prope sense of formal logic. although they have some good things say about what i takes to extabsh 3 generalisation on inductive grounds, and they iy charge the Stoic with paying nsulficnt attention £9 ation theory. ™ All through the Helleiste period serious logics the preserve ofthe Stoic extablishment (the poltical image is perhaps not inappropriate), which meant, a8 U have tied 10 ‘explain, that che whole massive weight ofthe Stoic system stood {against any farther development of Aristotle's pioneering stat ‘With shi at ren we have come fll zele- Wane believes that an adeyuate philosophy of scince must Gnd « ple for no Seductive as well as for deductive logic. one will conclude tht, 3 logicians, Avietotle war a better end to he sciences than Zen and Cheysippus. 1 Aristore’s wisdom im these maters di ippeatel tothe retorica teaditon, rather than Being take op and developed by philosophers or seienists. a Lage share of the blame must ext wth the authority of Zeno's work On Signs (DL, 1-4) andthe Stoic tradition geneslly, "8 Be Se tle arm ape neat > oneal nc ase cd Seventeen? San ss rearing Saeed ke tan fon ood aoe ed Secreta coer ounch omc anche 8 On Signs DAVID SEDLEY 1. halen, de Sus Wu eheappeatanc in 1978 of Philip and Estelle De Lay's second edition of Phileas, de Sigs, one which wn 's based on adequate papyrological inform pe for renewed discssion ofthis work and ite place Helen plhlosophy. Ite real ttle is Philodernas. On [..-] aml Sign Infrnces. The missing, word may be pha," pluisomens, "appearances but this need not concern us HOw * ghar ieee wee ores a ee aaa Sateen aoe Sepreyen Bac ey stee mito ee Sloe nope ‘Sesion usc suka toe tee Sani because the surviving final part of the book seems concerned purely with sign-inference (imetaxs), tha is, the discovery of hon-evident ths by means of evident signs? Wang w the mid first century B.C. the author reports from his distinguished Epicurean maser Zeno of Sidon (61357475 w4:) the arguments fof some contemporary adversaries, fallowed by Zeno’ reply (11-28-13). There fellows 3 further bref summary of the Epic ean position taken from the weitings of 1 equally renowned, Slightly younger, Epicuremn, Demetrius Lacon (28.1-29.19). Finally he records an oral contribution on the same topic, prob ably from a third Epicurean whose name isnot preserved nthe (ay.iy-48.23)> Te conventions! idenification ofthese opponnts a Stoic hat sever reccved the fall defence that st deserves It must be admitted that none ofthe terminology or pilosophical examples srenbuted to thom so unstakably Stoica co ace themarer.® Newertheles, I believe the convention to be coerce, 3 oie philosophical sect were contributing to this debate 3 medial School would be the keist candidat, bu his i ued out by the Closing sentence ofthe book, in which Phledemus seems. with Tile enehusiasm, co defer dicunsion of medial handlings of the 2 ip xe he a tien: tw al ay tr apne penty beans ge me ed bg Te dan af'wsinen't' Seiomeld ee, Geek eam ots ph Oe FLAN sli et hee wR eda apy {meont te fart riew se A Arg sd M. Cleo, ace SECS! Slt ah tS mel ery ve Sior-sec or ning 4 east ion shelton ne eee Eng ea tat paren Bs ‘Bhs free SA lot eet a ‘Bed Gna, See bow ec 9 ‘mesd tk entail bythe ne Ane ti plop ont ‘Bete edtadons pr e ghy smer f tpesen ne et Sietnalar nape aie be See pope Le On Sigs 248 topie 10 2 subsequent book (38.23+32). The only contemporary philosophical opponents available to Zeno and Demetrius would bethe Stic, the Peipaeis, and the Academie sceptics. U have

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