Crinis

Short description: Ancient Greek Stoic philosopher

Crinis (Greek: Κρὶνις) was a Stoic philosopher. It is not certain when he lived, although a line in the Discourses of Epictetus suggests that he lived at, or later than, the time of Archedemus (2nd century BC), and that he died from fright:

> Go away now and read Archedemus; then if a mouse should leap down and make a noise, you are a dead man. For such a death awaits you as it did - what was the man's name? - Crinis; and he too was proud, because he understood Archedemus.[1]

He was interested in Logic, and wrote a book called Dialectic Art, (Greek: διαλεκτικὴ τέχνη), from which Diogenes Laërtius quotes:

> An argument, as Crinis says, is that which is composed of a lemma or major premise, an assumption or minor premise, and a conclusion; as for instance this,

> "If it is day, it is light;"
>  "But it is day, therefore it is light."
>  For the lemma, or major premise, is, "If it is day, it is light."
>  The assumption, or minor premise, is, "It is day."
>  The conclusion follows, "Therefore it is light."

> [2]

## Notes

1. ↑ Epictetus, Discourses, 3.2.15
2. ↑ Diogenes Laërtius, The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, vii.

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