Stoic Meditations

740. The Stoics got divination wrong, but cause-effect right

Nov 25, 2020 · 3 min · 3.1 MB
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The ancient Stoics believed in divination, because the world works by cause-effect. They were wrong on the specifics, but correct about the general idea, which is what still today underpins modern science.