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Ideas of Carneades, by Text
[Greek, 214 - 129 BCE, Born at Cyrene, in North Africa. Head of the New Academy in Athens. Wrote nothing, but Clitomachus preserved his arguments.]
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p.10
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Carneades said that after a shipwreck a wise man would seize the only plank by force [Tuck]
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p.505
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Carneades' pinnacles of philosophy are the basis of knowledge (the criterion of truth) and the end of appetite (good) [Cicero]
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fr 41-42
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p.91
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Carneades denied the transitivity of identity [Chisholm]
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