Crates of Thebes is the received heir who carries Cynic teaching after Diogenes
Diogenes of Sinope’s documented role is: Crates taught; Diogenes did not typeset a succession statute. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.
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Crates is the received next teacher. Diogenes of Sinope’s documented role is: Crates taught; Diogenes did not typeset a succession statute. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Diogenes of Sinope's documented role is: Crates taught; Diogenes did not typeset a succession statute.
Context
Thebes and Athens as later maps. Hipparchia is Crates' file. Named others on the file: Crates; Hipparchia as neighbouring later Cynic. The public setting is the file around -0325-01-01. The instrument stays Crates of Thebes is the received heir who carries Cynic teaching after Diogenes. The setting of Crates of Thebes is the received heir who carries Cynic teaching after Diogenes is the public file around -0325-01-01. Driver edu-digital-learning-access is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.
Why it matters
School continuation. Welfare reading improving. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving.
If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Diogenes of Sinope
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.32 · verified
Crates taught; Diogenes did not typeset a succession statute.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactCrates of Thebes is the received heir who carries Cynic teaching after Diogenes
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicators (3)Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 January 325 · verified
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.12 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.4)
Observed
70% of 10-year-olds · 70 above the normal line (2022)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 57% of 10-year-olds (2019) and 70% of 10-year-olds (2022).
20192022 Above normal = worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.1 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.35)
Observed
472 PISA score points · 28 below the normal line (2022)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2003–2022: fell from 499 PISA score points to 472 PISA score points.
Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.09 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.3)
Observed
11% of primary-school-age children · 11 above the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalAbove normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — CynicsInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
- 2.Britannica — DiogenesEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Independent Cynic entries name Crates as successor neighbourhood. Official: Britannica — Crates of Thebes (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Diogenes-Greek-philosopher (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Cynics (https://iep.utm.edu/cynics/ (opens in a new tab); Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Britannica — Crates of Thebes (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Diogenes-Greek-philosopher (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Cynics (https://iep.utm.edu/cynics/ (opens in a new tab); Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy).
Lineage, not a charter. Established: a sourced public record of Crates of Thebes is the received heir who carries Cynic teaching after Diogenes under -0325-01-01.
Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Crates of Thebes is the received heir who carries Cynic teaching after Diogenes are separate paths.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.
That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.
Shared responsibility is part of Crates of Thebes is the received heir who carries Cynic teaching after Diogenes. Naming Diogenes of Sinope does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0325-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorDiogenes of Sinope
- contributed toFactCrates of Thebes is the received heir who carries Cynic teaching after Diogenes
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
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Factrail. (2026). Crates of Thebes is the received heir who carries Cynic teaching after Diogenes. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/dio-crates-heir
https://factrail.ai/facts/dio-crates-heir
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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