Chrysippus
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#Chrysippus
Chrysippus · c. 279–206 BCE
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“The ancients said it themselves: "If Chrysippus had not existed, the Stoa would not exist." He wrote 705 books, invented the logic your computer runs on, and built the first serious answer to the question of free will — and every one of those books is lost.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“Everything happens by fate, yet you are still responsible for what you do — and the logic of if this, then that can be made as exact as arithmetic.”
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