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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.102
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21390
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Future events are true if one day we will say 'this event is happening now'
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p.103
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21389
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Carneades distinguished logical from causal necessity, when talking of future events [Long]
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p.103
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21391
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Some actions are within our power; determinism needs prior causes for everything - so it is false [Cicero]
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p.104
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21392
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People change laws for advantage; either there is no justice, or it is a form of self-injury [Lactantius]
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p.505
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2666
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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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