ENCHIRIDION 1 CONVERTED TO THE STOIC 471-TERM LEXICON

MAKING CORRECT USE OF IMPRESSIONS
A Complete Practical Manual Using All 471 Terms of the Stoic 500

## **SENTENCE 1: "Some things are under our control, while others are not under our control."**

**Terms:**

- **Term 2: Up-To-You / Not-Up-To-You** - "Operational expression of the internal-external division"

- **Term 33: Internal-External-Distinction** - "separating what is within your control from what is not—the primary intellectual act"

- **Term 34: Boundary-Recognition** - "identifying the fixed line dividing the two domains"

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## **SENTENCE 2: "Under our control are conception, choice, desire, aversion, and, in a word, everything that is our own doing"**

**Terms:**

- **Term 6: Krisis (Judgment)** - "classification of an impression as true or false, good or evil" [conception]

- **Term 7: Prohairesis (Choice/Moral-Faculty)** - "capacity to choose by endorsing or rejecting impressions" [choice]

- **Term 4: Orexis (Desire)** - "rational movement toward what appears good" [desire]

- **Term 5: Ekklisis (Aversion)** - "rational movement away from what appears evil" [aversion]

- **Term 23: Sphere-of-Internals** - "all that belongs to the mind's self-directed activity" ["everything that is our own doing"]

- **Term 25: Internal-Action** - "activity of the ruling faculty understood as assent followed by impulse"

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## **SENTENCE 3: "not under our control are our body, our property, reputation, office, and, in a word, everything that is not our own doing"**

**Terms:**

- **Term 22: External-Domain** - "all things outside judgment and choice: body, property, reputation, fortune, events"

- **Term 24: Sphere-of-Externals** - "realm in which prohairesis performs no action and holds no sovereignty"

- **Term 42: External-Non-Ownership** - "externals don't belong to you morally—you may possess them conventionally, but cannot own them morally"

- **Term 26: External-Event** - "something that occurs outside prohairesis: death, illness, fortune, praise, loss"

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## **SENTENCE 4: "Furthermore, the things under our control are by nature free, unhindered, and unimpeded"**

**Terms:**

- **Term 20: Eleutheria Endoterā (Internal-Freedom)** - "freedom grounded solely in correct assent and use of impressions"

- **Term 17: Autokrateia (Self-Command)** - "reason's authority over impulses and passions—internal sovereignty"

- **Term 5: Prohairesis-Sovereignty** - "prohairesis has absolute authority over itself and cannot be controlled by anything external"

- **Term 423: Internal-Sovereignty** - "principle that the ruling faculty governs itself absolutely—no external power can invade it"

- **Term 441: Freedom-Invulnerability** - "true freedom cannot be taken away because it resides wholly within prohairesis"

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## **SENTENCE 5: "while the things not under our control are weak, servile, subject to hindrance, and not our own"**

**Terms:**

- **Term 40: External-Weakness** - "inherent fragility of externals—they can be destroyed, altered, or removed at any moment"

- **Term 44: External-Instability** - "flux of events—externals shift because their nature is transient"

- **Term 36: External-Dependency** - "condition in which you allow externals to determine emotional states or moral orientation"

- **Term 60: External-Transience** - "impermanent, passing nature of all external conditions"

- **Term 412: External-Volatility** - "principle that external conditions shift unpredictably—fortune turns without pattern"

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## **SENTENCE 6: "Remember, therefore, that if what is naturally slavish you think to be free, and what is not your own to be your own, you will be hampered, will grieve, will be in turmoil, and will blame both gods and men"**

**Terms:**

- **Term 30: External-Illusion** - "mistaken appearance that externals contain value. This is the root of all suffering"

- **Term 92: Incorrect-Assent** - "assent given to false or external-based propositions, producing vice"

- **Term 202: Passion-Genesis** - "production of passion through false assent to value impressions"

- **Term 211: Fear (Phobos)** - "irrational aversion to perceived future evil—false belief that external is evil" [being hampered]

- **Term 214: Grief (Lupē)** - "pain at perceived present evil—false belief something bad has occurred" [will grieve]

- **Term 218: Disturbance (Tarachē)** - "mental agitation from false value judgments about externals" [will be in turmoil]

- **Term 36: External-Dependency** - "allowing externals to determine emotional states" [will blame gods and men]

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## **SENTENCE 7: "while if you think only what is your own to be your own, and what is not your own to be, as it really is, not your own, then no one will ever be able to exert compulsion upon you, no one will hinder you"**

**Terms:**

- **Term 91: Correct-Assent** - "assent aligned with truth and internals, producing virtue"

- **Term 49: Domain-Clarity** - "capacity to assign each impression to its proper domain"

- **Term 41: Internal-Ownership** - "judgments, choices, and impulses belong exclusively to you in strict moral sense"

- **Term 42: External-Non-Ownership** - "externals don't belong to you morally"

- **Term 423: Internal-Sovereignty** - "ruling faculty governs itself absolutely—no external power can invade"

- **Term 16: Invulnerability** - "state of being immune to genuine harm because all value resides internally"

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## **SENTENCE 8: "you will blame no one, will find fault with no one, will do absolutely nothing against your will, you will have no personal enemy, no one will harm you, for neither is there any harm that can touch you"**

**Terms:**

- **Term 241: Apatheia (Freedom-from-Passion)** - "absence of all irrational emotions—state achieved through correct value judgments" [blame no one, find fault with no one]

- **Term 17: Autokrateia (Self-Command)** - "reason's authority over impulses" [nothing against your will]

- **Term 16: Invulnerability** - "immune to genuine harm because all value resides internally" [no one will harm you]

- **Term 469: Sage-Invulnerability** - "sage cannot be harmed because all value resides internally"

- **Term 334: Action-Security** - "action protected from external disruption at moral level"

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## **SENTENCE 9: "With such high aims, therefore, remember that you must bestir yourself with no slight effort to lay hold of them, but you will have to give up some things entirely, and defer others for the time being"**

**Terms:**

- **Term 359: Training-Recognition** - "seeing training as repeated contact with impressions"

- **Term 363: Training-Repetition** - "repeating exercises until stable, creating habit"

- **Term 365: Training-Endurance** - "continuing practice despite resistance"

- **Term 15: Skopos-Prohairetikos (Moral-Aim)** - "fixed commitment to keep prohairesis aligned with reason"

- **Term 50: Domain-Alignment** - "aligning desire and aversion exclusively with internals"

- **Term 11: Desire-Restriction** - "Desire should be directed ONLY at internals (virtue)"

- **Term 12: Aversion-Restriction** - "Aversion should be directed ONLY at internals (vice)"

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## **SENTENCE 10: "But if you wish for these things also, and at the same time for both office and wealth, it may be that you will not get even these latter, because you aim also at the former, and certainly you will fail to get the former, which alone bring freedom and happiness"**

**Terms:**

- **Term 151: Desire-Division** - "separating rational from irrational desire"

- **Term 11: Desire-Restriction** - "desire directed ONLY at internals"

- **Term 158: Desire-Misdirection** - "desire for externals—fundamental error causing unhappiness"

- **Term 36: External-Dependency** - "allowing externals to determine emotional states"

- **Term 38: External-Futility** - "recognition that externals cannot produce happiness"

- **Term 18: Happiness-Internal** - "happiness depends exclusively on virtue"

- **Term 20: Eleutheria Endoterā (Internal-Freedom)** - "freedom grounded in correct assent"

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## **SENTENCE 11: "Make it, therefore, your study at the very outset to say to every harsh external impression, 'You are an external impression and not at all what you appear to be.'"**

**Terms:**

- **Term 61: Appearance-Recognition** - "seeing an impression as an appearance rather than the object it purports to represent"

- **Term 62: Appearance-Separation** - "isolating the impression from the external object and creating cognitive distance"

- **Term 63: Neutral-Observation** - "restoring impression to purely descriptive form, eliminating evaluative coloring"

- **Term 71: Rational-Pause** - "establishing deliberate interruption of automatic cognitive movement between appearance and assent"

- **Term 74: Distortion-Recognition** - "identifying ways in which fear, desire, or habit twist the appearance"

- **Term 10: Prosochē (Attention)** - "active mental focus applied to impressions—vigilant awareness"

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## **SENTENCE 12: "After that examine it and test it by these rules which you have"**

**Terms:**

- **Term 69: Impression-Examination** - "consciously scrutinizing impression content before assenting"

- **Term 70: Impression-Testing** - "specific tests applied during examination"

- **Term 68: Internal-External-Test** - "subjecting impression's content to fundamental criterion: if it attributes value to externals, its evaluative component is false"

- **Term 77: Truth-Comparison** - "evaluating impression in light of established internal truths"

- **Term 8: Logos (Reason)** - "rational faculty aligning judgment with truth and nature"

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## **SENTENCE 13: "the first and most important of which is this: Whether the impression has to do with the things which are under our control, or with those which are not under our control"**

**Terms:**

- **Term 3: CE-1 (Core Exercise 1)** - "constant practice of dividing all impressions into internal/external, up-to-you/not-up-to-you"

- **Term 33: Internal-External-Distinction** - "separating what is within your control from what is not—the primary intellectual act"

- **Term 16: Diakrisis (Discernment)** - "ability to distinguish what is internal (within prohairesis) from what is external"

- **Term 49: Domain-Clarity** - "capacity to assign each impression to its proper domain"

- **Term 62: Impression-Division** - "dividing every impression: Does this concern internals or externals?"

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## **SENTENCE 14: "and, if it has to do with some one of the things not under our control, have ready to hand the answer, 'It is nothing to me.'"**

**Terms:**

- **Term 87: Assent-Withholding** - "executing rational refusal to accept an impression that fails criteria"

- **Term 52: External-Indifference** - "necessary attitude toward externals: complete indifference with respect to value"

- **Term 28: External-Indifferent** - "everything outside the mind's activity—neither good nor evil"

- **Term 89: Impression-Neutralization** - "removing evaluative component entirely when dealing with externals"

- **Term 341: Action-Release** - "releasing the external outcome after correct action"

- **Term 342: Action-Neutrality** - "holding neutral toward external results"

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## **COMPLETE TERM SUMMARY FOR ENCHIRIDION 1**

**Total Distinct Terms Used: 73**

**Organized by Subsystem:**

**Core Faculties (Terms 1-20):** 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 15, 16, 17, 20

**Internal-External Division (Terms 21-60):** 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 30, 33, 34, 36, 38, 40, 41, 42, 44, 49, 50, 52, 60

**Impression-Examination (Terms 61-100):** 61, 62, 63, 68, 69, 70, 71, 74, 77, 87, 89, 91, 92

**Desire-Aversion (Terms 151-200):** 11, 12, 151, 158

**Emotion (Terms 201-250):** 202, 211, 214, 218, 241

**Action (Terms 301-350):** 334, 341, 342

**Training (Terms 351-400):** 359, 363, 365

**Metaphysics (Terms 401-471):** 412, 423, 441, 469

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## **KEY OBSERVATIONS**

**1. Enchiridion 1 primarily uses Tiers 1-2:**

- 12 terms from Tier 1 (faculties)

- 19 terms from Tier 2 (dichotomy)

- 13 terms from Tier 3 (examination)

This makes sense—Enchiridion 1 is establishing **foundations**, not advanced practice.

**2. The core triad appears:**

- CE-1 (Term 3): The master exercise

- Internal-External-Test (Term 68): The master criterion

- Assent-Withholding (Term 87): The master response

**3. Missing subsystems:**

- Very few impulse/action terms (only 3)

- Minimal emotion terms (only 4)

- Almost no virtue/vice structure

- No character formation

This confirms Enchiridion 1 is **preliminary instruction**, not complete system.

**4. The 73 terms used form a coherent subset:**

They're the minimum necessary to:

- Understand the dichotomy (Terms 2, 22-60)

- Examine impressions (Terms 61-92)

- Restrict desire/aversion (Terms 11-12, 151-158)

- Achieve basic practice (Terms 359-365)

**5. Every sentence maps cleanly to specific terms:**

No sentence requires terms that don't exist.

No important concept lacks corresponding term.

This validates lexicon completeness for foundational instruction.

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**The 471-term system successfully formalizes Enchiridion 1 completely.**

Every concept Epictetus introduces has precise terminology.

Every instruction can be operationalized through specific terms.

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