910. The Stoics and Laplace's demon

from Stoic Meditations · host Massimo Pigliucci

Quintus, Cicero's brother, makes one last - and pretty good - argument in favor of divination, an argument that anticipated a famous idea by the astronomer Pierre-Simon de Laplace.

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