# Later anecdote has Diogenes pluck a chicken against Plato's 'featherless biped' definition

Date: 348

## The fact

A plucked bird is the received definition-joke. [Diogenes of Sinope](/people/diogenes-of-sinope)’s documented role is: A school-joke at the Academy's expense. Plato did not hire him. Low confidence as a dated seminar. Do not treat this as a unique Academy minutes file. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Diogenes of Sinope's documented role is: A school-joke at the Academy's expense. Plato did not hire him. Low confidence as a dated seminar.

## Context

Academy neighbourhood as later told. Named others on the file: Plato as target. The public setting is the file around -0348-01-01. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. The instrument stays Later anecdote has Diogenes pluck a chicken against Plato's 'featherless biped' definition. The setting of Later anecdote has Diogenes pluck a chicken against Plato's 'featherless biped' definition is the public file around -0348-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## Evidence and sources

Cynic and Plato neighbourhoods independently repeat the joke as tradition. Official: Perseus — Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book VI ch. 2: Diogenes (Hicks translation) (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0258:book=6:chapter=2; Perseus Digital Library / Tufts). Independent: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Diogenes of Sinope (https://iep.utm.edu/diogenes-of-sinope/; 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: Perseus — Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book VI ch. 2: Diogenes (Hicks translation) (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0258:book=6:chapter=2; Perseus Digital Library / Tufts). Independent carrier: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Diogenes of Sinope (https://iep.utm.edu/diogenes-of-sinope/; Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Official or archival record: Perseus — Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book VI ch. 2: Diogenes (Hicks translation) (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0258:book=6:chapter=2; Perseus Digital Library / Tufts).

## Significance

Definition as public theatre. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A public definition-joke is an education path of low confidence. 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.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not treat this as a unique Academy minutes file. Mixed effects of Later anecdote has Diogenes pluck a chicken against Plato's 'featherless biped' definition are separate paths.

## What is established and what is not

Joke, not minutes. Established: a sourced public record of Later anecdote has Diogenes pluck a chicken against Plato's 'featherless biped' definition under -0348-01-01. Established: a sourced public record of Later anecdote has Diogenes pluck a chicken against Plato's 'featherless biped' definition under -0348-01-01.

Shared responsibility is part of Later anecdote has Diogenes pluck a chicken against Plato's 'featherless biped' definition. Naming Diogenes of Sinope does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0348-01-01 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.

The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Diogenes of Sinope: https://factrail.ai/people/diogenes-of-sinope

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0258:book=6:chapter=2
- https://iep.utm.edu/diogenes-of-sinope/

## Methodology

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