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    The Stoic criterion of a 'correct' conditional (sunartêsi... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→An argument is sound when it is both valid and has true premises

    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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    • 1.Diodorus's Master Argument shows that truth-conditions alone cannot distinguish valid from invalid conditionals without modal constraints.
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    • 2.Stoics explicitly required that a correct conditional preserve necessity: the consequent must follow from the antecedent, not merely co-occur.
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    • 3.A conditional 'if it is day, the gods exist' can be materially true yet fail to be correct because it lacks the requisite modal connection.
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    • 1.The Stoic notion of 'following' (akolouthia) may itself reduce to truth-preservation under their determinism, not genuinely modal constraint.
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    • 2.Master Argument targets future contingency and possibility, not the structure of conditionals—conflating distinct logical problems.
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    • 3.Ancient sources do not conclusively show Stoics embedded Diodorean logic into their conditional criterion rather than using it separately.
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