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EUBULIDES

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 867 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EUBULIDES , a native of See also:

Miletus, See also:Greek philosopher and successor of Eucleides as See also:head of the Megarian school. Nothing is known of the events of his See also:life. Indirect See also:evidence shows that he was a contemporary of See also:Aristotle, whom he attacked with See also:great bitterness. There was also a tradition that See also:Demosthenes was one of his pupils. His name has been preserved chiefly by some See also:EUCALYPTUS 867 celebrated, though false and captious, syllogisms of which he was the reputed author. Though mainly examples of verbal quibbling, they serve to show the difficulties of See also:language and of explaining the relations of sense-given impressions. Eubulides wrote a See also:treatise on See also:Diogenes the Cynic and also a number of comedies.

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