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056 - XXV That Logic is Necessary · Discourses of Epictetus

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  Speaker 1: Section fifty five of Discourses of Epictetus by Epictetus, translated
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  Speaker 1: by George Long. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Read by Christine Rocker, March second, twenty twenty two, Westford, Massachusetts,
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  Speaker 1: Book two, chapter twenty five, that logic is necessary. When
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  Speaker 1: one of those who were present said, persuade me that
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  Speaker 1: logic is necessary, he replied, do you wish me to
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  Speaker 1: prove this to you? The answer was yes, then I
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  Speaker 1: must use a demonstrative form of speech. This was granted.
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  Speaker 1: How then will you know if I am cheating you
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  Speaker 1: by my argument? The man was silent. Do you see,
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  Speaker 1: said Epictetus, that you yourself are admitting that logic is necessary?
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  Speaker 1: If without it you cannot know so much as this,
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  Speaker 1: whether logic is necessary or not necessary. End of Book two,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty five,