Philosophy
On the doctrines of Diodorus we possess only fragmentary information, and not even the titles of his works are known. He seems to have fully developed the dialectic art of the Megarians. He was much occupied with the theory of proof and of hypothetical propositions. In the same manner as he rejected in logic the divisibility of the fundamental notion, he also maintained, in his physical doctrines, that space was indivisible, and consequently that motion was impossible. He further denied the coming into existence and all multiplicity both in time and in space; but he considered the things that fill up space as one whole composed of an infinite number of indivisible particles.
Diodorus made use of the Sorites paradox, and is said to have invented two others of the same kind, viz. The Masked Man and The Horns, which are, however, also ascribed to Eubulides. He also rejected the view that words are ambiguous, any uncertainty in understanding was always due to speakers expressing themselves obscurely.
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