Dionysius of Chalcedon

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Template:Short description Dionysius of Chalcedon (Template:Langx; fl. 320 BC)Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". was a Greek philosopher and dialectician connected with the Megarian school. He was a native of Chalcedon on the coast of Bithynia.[1] Dionysius was the person who first used the name Dialecticians to describe a splinter group within the Megarian school "because they put their arguments into the form of question and answer".[2] One area of activity for the dialecticians was the framing of definitions,Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". and Aristotle criticises a definition of life by Dionysius in his Topics:[3] Template:Quote Dionysius is also reported to have taught Theodorus the Atheist.[4]

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  3. Aristotle, Topics vi. 10
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