  On the other hand Diodorus’s Dialectical school was Socratic in its affiliation (see the entry on  Dialectical School  in this encyclopedia, section 1). As mentioned above, it was a branch or offshoot of the Megaric school, founded by Euclides of Megara and recognized as one of the minor ‘Socratic’ schools, thanks to Euclides’s close association with Socrates.