 Just like the particle rules for logical constants, the Formal Rule sets the meaning of elementary statements purely in terms of dialogical interaction. This has clear roots in the Ancient Greek tradition of logic, most particularly in Plato and Aristotle. Lorenzen alluded to Greek dialectics in his 1960 paper. On this matter, Marion and Rückert (2016) discuss how the dialogical framework can directly be related with this Platonist and Aristotelian conception. Plato’s Gorgias (472b–c), for example, expresses an idea which can be freely summed up with the following statement: