In antiquity, the dialectician Diodorus Cronus gained reknown as the author of the Master Argument. Unfortunately, this celebrated argument is known to us only as a trio of premises reported by Epictetus.

This study of three central themes in the logic of Alexander of Aphrodisias, the greatest of the ancient Aristotelian commentators, provides insight not only into Aristotle's logical writings but also into the tradition of scholarship which they spawned.