Daily Archives: June 8, 2015

Stoic Logic

Many of the teachings of the ancient Stoics were nearly identical to those of modern propositional logic. For example, Philo of Megara (fl. 300 BC) said that a conditional is false if it has a true antecedent and a false consequent; in all other cases it is true. Diodorus (died 284 BC) taught that a conditional is true if and only if it neither is nor was possible for the antecedent to be true and the consequent false.

Is that cool or what?