Note 108 — Chapter V · LOGIC OF THE STOICS.

(β) Composite judgments. Among composite judgments the most important are the hypothetical and the disjunctive. As regards the latter, next to no information has reached us.108 A hypothetical judgment (συνημμένον) is a judgment consisting of two clauses, connected by the conjunction ‘if,’ and related to one another as cause and effect; the former being called the leading (ἡγούμενον), and the latter the concluding or inferential clause (λῆγον).109 In the correctness of the inference the truth of a hypothetical judgment consists. As to the conditions upon which the accuracy of an inference rests, different opinions were entertained within the Stoic School itself.110 In as far as the leading clause states something, from the existence of which an inference may be drawn for the statement in the concluding clause, it is also called an indication or suggestive sign.111