Note 112 — Chapter V · LOGIC OF THE STOICS.
Oswald J. (Oswald Joseph) Reichel translation
(γ) Modality of judgments. The modality of judgments, which engaged the attention of Aristotle and his immediate pupils so much, was likewise treated by the Stoics at considerable length; but of this branch of enquiry so much only is known to us as concerns possible and necessary judgments, and it is the outcome chiefly of the contest between Chrysippus and the Megarian Diodorus.112 It is in itself of no great value. By the Stoics, nevertheless, great value was attached to it, in the hope of escaping thereby the difficulties which necessarily result from their views on freedom and necessity.113