Antisthenes
444?–365? b.c., Greek philosopher: founder of the Cynic school.
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Overcome by the importunity of Diogenes, Antisthenes yielded, and permitted him to become his scholar.
Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 | VariousErrors of Antisthenes — depended partly on the imperfect formal logic of that day.
Antisthenes 222probably considered that the copula implied identity between the predicate and the subject.
This last opinion is said to have been held by Antisthenes, one of the disciples of Sokrates.
Here again, we have difficulties similar to those which perplexed Antisthenes.
British Dictionary definitions for Antisthenes
/ (ænˈtɪsθəˌniːz) /
?445–365 bc, Greek philosopher, founder of the Cynic school, who taught that the only good was virtue, won by self-control and independence from worldly needs
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