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Logic IV. 140

been about the age of puberty, or less, when Diogenes says he "flourished;" and the only explanation I can imagine if the assertion would be that these two ages somehow became confused in the transmission of the statement. It is therefore much more satisfactory to suppose the age of 65 was a fiction introduced in order to make it plain that Parmenides of the dialogue represented the actual Plato.

Accepting, then, the above hypothesis, what date are we to assign to the composition of the dialogue? This evidently must depend upon the chronology of the life of Aristotle. It is most strange and deplorable that in regard to this matter there should be two totally different ancient accounts. That one which we are able to have to the older authorities, Epicurus and Tinaeus, both of them disparagers of Aristotle, represents Aristotle as 70 years old at his death, which occured, beyond all dispute, about the first of August 322 B.C., and as going to Athens and joining the school

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