Stoic Logos The quote about the Stoics use of Logos Spermatikos cited here conflicts with Vivien Law s account of their use of Logos in The History of Linguistics in Europe From Plato to 1600 Cambridge University Press 2003 pp 38 42 Not only does she not mention Logos spermatikos she notes that we have no primary sources for the Stoics views on language and the secondary sources are questionable Her view is that the stoics departed from the Aristotelian model of Onoma Rhema Logos and saw it simply as meaningful sound a subset of lexis writable sound which in turn she says they saw as a subset of phone all sounds As it stands therefore the article is biased