Clinomachus

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Clinomachus (Greek: Κλεινόμαχος), a Megarian philosopher of Thurii, is said by Diogenes Laërtius[1] to have been the first who composed treatises on the fundamental principles of dialectics. We learn from the Suda,[2] that Pyrrho, who flourished about 330 BC, attended the instructions of Bryson, and that the latter was a disciple of Clinomachus. We may therefore set the date of Clinomachus towards the beginning of the same century.

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  1. ^ Diogenes Laërtius, ii. 112
  2. ^ Suda, Pyrrhon

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).