Single Idea 1771

[catalogued under 1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy]

Full Idea

When shown seven species of dialectic in the mowing argument, he asked the price, and when told 'a hundred drachmas', he gave two hundred, so devoted was he to learning.

Clarification

The mowing argument?

Gist of Idea

When shown seven versions of the mowing argument, he paid twice the asking price for them

Source

report of Zeno (Citium) (fragments/reports [c.294 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 07.Ze.20

Book Reference

Diogenes Laertius: 'Diogenes Laertius', ed/tr. Yonge,C.D. [Henry G. Bohn 1853], p.268


A Reaction

Wonderful. I have a watertight proof that pleasure is not the good, which I will auction on the internet.

Related Idea

Idea 13773 For the truth you need Prodicus's fifty-drachma course, not his one-drachma course [Socrates]