Kurioses, Vergessenes, Gutes

“So this whole class of fallacious arguments can be rejected in the same way. ‘You’ll recover whether or not you call in a doctor’ is fallacious, for whether or not you call in adoctor is just as much fated as whether or not you recover. As I said before, these two are what Chrysippus calls ‘co-fated’.” (Cicero, De fato, 30)

“It is a piece of the grossest impertinence for the Stoics to think that they are discovering a blunder in the Lazy Argument when they point to the existence of co-fated events. … the existence of co-fated events is a common premiss accepted by both sides, and built into the very structure of the Lazy Argument. …
I think the Lazy Argument is a very powerful one, and I think that Chrysippus’ introduction of ‘co-fated’ events is a rather surprising and disappointing failure on his part. What disappoints is … that he seems to have crucially failed to understand the original complaint.” (Ted Brennan, The Stoic Life, 284f)