Epicurean Canonics Based On Philodemus As Analyzed By Sedley's "On Signs" and DeLacy's "On Methods of Inference"

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    I have asked ClaudaAI to take the DeLacy translation and commentary, as well as Sedley's essay On Signs, and produce a detailed outline and analysis of the work based on those two authorities. After reviewing the result it looks pretty good to me, and extremely useful.

    Given it's length and easier presentation in markdown format than here, I'll link it first (where it is easier to read). The full text follows after the link. Given the duplicate effort in maintaining two copies I will probably update the epicurustoday.com version more frequently, so I advise referring to that one. (especially since at the moment the forum version is irritatingly converting some punctuation to smiley faces!)

    Philodemus - On Methods of Inference - Outline and Analysis


    EDIT -- As of 4/7/26 I have already made significant revisions to the document, and I see that it's not going to be feasible to maintain two copies at least until the revisions begin to slow. Please refer to the version at EpicurusToday.com for the latest version.

  • Cassius April 6, 2026 at 11:48 AM

    Changed the title of the thread from “Detailed Analysis of Philodemus Based on Sedley's "On Signs" and DeLacy's "On Methods of Inference"” to “Epicurean Canonics Based On Philodemus As Analyzed By Sedley's "On Signs" and DeLacy's "On Methods of Inference"”.

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