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    Challenges→Stoic syllogistic is best understood as a substructural backwards-working Gentzen-style natural-deduction system

    Susanne Bobzien's scholarship demonstrates that Stoic syllogistic is better understood as a proof system governed by a specific dialectical analysis procedure with its own integrity.

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    Key Terms

    Dialectical(describing Tiantai's method of 'resolution')
    A way of thinking that works through contradictions or opposing ideas to reach a deeper truth, rather than just picking one side or the other.
    Integrity(Presented as a necessary condition for being an agent at all)
    The coherent unity of agency achieved through commitment to morality and universal principles of self-government.
    Stoic(describing the epistemological framework)
    A school of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy that believed virtue is the highest good and that we should accept what happens with calm reason.
    Susanne Bobzien(the scholar whose work is being discussed)
    A contemporary philosopher who specializes in ancient Stoic logic and has written influential scholarship reinterpreting how Stoic philosophers understood logical reasoning.

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    proof system(Propositional proof complexity)
    A definition of the derivability symbol ⊢_P which characterizes what it means for a formula φ to be derivable from a given set of axioms and rules; equivalently, a mapping P: {0,1}* → VALID whose domain consists of all binary strings and whose range is the class of all valid formulas
    syllogistic(Aristotelian logic)
    A theory covering a rather limited range of arguments, specifically two-premised arguments containing only the four kinds of categorical sentences

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