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DIODORUS CRONUS (4th century B.C.)

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 281 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DEM-DIO
DIODORUS CRONUS (4th century B.C.) , Greek philosopher of the Megarian school. Practically nothing is known of his
life
 .
Diogenes
  Laertius (ii. III) tells a story that, while staying at the
court
  of
Ptolemy
 
Soter
 , Diodorus was asked to solve a dialectical subtlety by Stilpo. Not being able to answer on the spur of the moment, he was nicknamed o Kpovos (the God, equivalent to " slowcoach ") by
Ptolemy
 . The story goes that he died of shame at his failure. Strabo, however, says ()dv. 658; xvii. 838) that he took the name from Apollonius, his master. Like the rest of the Megarian school he revelled in verbal quibbles, proving that motion and existence are impossible. His was the famous sophism known as the Kvptebtay. The impossible cannot result from the possible; a past event cannot become other than it is; but if an event, at a given moment, had been possible, from this possible would result something impossible; therefore the
original
  event was impossible. This problem was taken up by Chrysippus, who admitted that he could not solve it. Apart from these verbal gymnastics, Diodorus did not differ from the Megarian school. From his
great
  dialectical skill he earned the title o &aXexrucbs, or &aXexrucwraTOS, a title which was borne by his five daughters, who inherited his ability.
See Cicero, De Fato, 6, 7, 9;
Aristotle
 , Metaphysica, 0 3; Sext. Empiric., adv. Math. x. 85; Ritter and Netter, Hist. philos. Gr. et Rom. chap. v. 234-236 (ed. 1869); and bibliography appended
to article MEGARIAN SCHOOL.


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