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    An argument is sound when it is both valid and has true premises

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    • 1.An argument is valid if its corresponding Chrysippean conditional is correct
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    • 2.An argument is sound only if it additionally has true premises
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    • 1.Soundness requires not merely true premises but premises known to be true, as Sextus Empiricus argued against dogmatic claims of propositional certainty.
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    • 2.A valid argument with accidentally true premises yields no genuine epistemic justification, making 'soundness' epistemically hollow without a knowledge condition.
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    • 1.The Stoic criterion of a 'correct' conditional (sunartêsis) already embeds a modal constraint that truth alone cannot satisfy, per Diodorus Cronus's Master Argument.
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    • 2.If validity depends on strict modal connection between antecedent and consequent, then truth of premises is insufficient for soundness without necessity of those truths.
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    Arguments are—normally—compounds of assertibles. They are defined as a system of at least two premises and a conclusion (D. L. 7.45). Syntactically, every premise but the first is introduced by ‘now’ or ‘but’, and the conclusion by ‘therefore’. An argument is valid if the (Chrysippean) conditional formed with the conjunction of its premises as antecedent and its conclusion as consequent is correct (S. E. PH 2.137; D. L. 7.77). An argument is ‘sound’ (literally: ‘true’), when in addition to being
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