The Stoics Confusion of the New and the Interior

The various modifications that matter undergoes are not the same thing as the modalities. How, could one reduce to a single classification the length of three feet, and weightness? Once one is a quantity and the other a quality, how could time and place be reduced there too? Besides, how would it be possible to consider as modalities such expressions as yesterday in the Lyceum and in the Academy? No man even possesses in such or such a modality, but possesses purely and simply. 4. Relation The Stoics confuse the new with the interior. 31. If the Stoics did not reduction relation to a common kind, there might be good grounds to examine whether they