 Theophrastus’ reconstruction of previous theories has been at the centre of the scholarly discussion on this work. Detailed studies concerning the way he summarized preceding opinions have been written, and it has been interestingly suggested that he often proves to have been more reliable and careful than Aristotle in expounding accurately what each one of his predecessors advocated (see McDiarmid 1959a, 1959b, 1960; Sedley 1985, 1992; Sharples 1985b; Laks 1990; Long 1996; Bredlow 2011; van Raalte 2015; Ierodiakonou 2019b; Rudolph 2019). In addition, more attention has lately been given to Theophrastus’ own analysis of earlier arguments as well as to his critical evaluations, so that this treatise is no longer thought of as a mere report of past doctrines but rather as a document of Peripatetic dialectic (see Baltussen 2000).