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Diogenes Laërtius · fl. 3rd century CE

Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.65 — Diogenes Laërtius on the Stoics

Translation by R. D. Hicks (1925)

Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.65

Reported speech · Diogenes Laërtius on the Stoics

for here the agent includes himself in the sphere of his action. The oblique cases are genitive, dative, and accusative. A judgement is that which is either true or false, or a thing complete in itself, capable of being denied in and by itself, as Chrysippus says in his Dialectical Definitions: “A judgement is that which in and by itself can be denied or affirmed, e.g. ‘It is day,’ ‘Dion is walking.’” The Greek word for judgement (ἀξίωμα ) is derived from the verb ἀξιοῦν, as signifying acceptance or rejection; for when you say “It is day,” you seem to accept the fact that it is day. Now, if it really is day, the judgement before us is true, but if not, it is false.
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Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book VII, tr. R. D. Hicks (Loeb, 1925). Text: Perseus Digital Library (CC BY-SA 4.0). Sources and licences

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A judgement is a statement that can be affirmed or denied and so is either true or false, such as it is day. The Greek word for it is linked to accepting or rejecting something. Technical logic definition.

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“oblique cases”
— grammatical forms of a noun other than the subject form
“judgement”
— in logic, a statement that is either true or false

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  • Speech and silence

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