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    Supports→The Stoics surpassed Aristotle's progress in logic during the Hellenistic period.

    Aristotle's logic was a logic of terms, focused on a limited range of statement kinds (e.g., All A are B, Some A are B, No A are B) and connections between predicate and subject terms.

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    Aristotle
    Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher who lived over 2,000 years ago and is one of the most influential thinkers in Western history. He studied nearly every subject—from animals and plants to politics and ethics—and developed practical ways of thinking that shaped how people understand the world. His ideas on logic, nature, and how to live a good life are still taught and debated today because he focused on observing the real world rather than just abstract theories.
    Logic(Introduced as an overarching category encompassing rhetoric, poetics, sophistical syllogistic, dialectic, and demonstration.)
    The universal instrument for distinguishing between the true and the false, whose nature varies according to its objects and ends.

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    Subject (in logic)(as used in logic)
    The main thing being talked about in a statement—the noun that a claim is being made about.
    Terms (in logic)(what relations are said to presuppose)
    The individual things or objects that a relationship connects together—like the two people in 'Alice is taller than Bob'.
    predicate(Logical/grammatical ontology in Eisagoge)
    Either a sound signifying a meaning or a meaning signified by a certain sound

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    The examples dealt with so far are examples of simple, complete sayables or propositions. The Stoics also developed an account of non-simple propositions. This interest in non-simple propositions and their logical relations was shared with philosophers in the Megarian or Dialectical school. It set the philosophers of the Hellenistic period on the pathway to surpass Aristotle’s progress in logic. His logic was ‘a logic of terms’. To put the matter very briefly and far too crudely, Aristotle had d

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