# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dionysius-of-chalcedon
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:30:59.903Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dionysius-of-chalcedon"
name: "Dionysius of Chalcedon"
slug: "dionysius-of-chalcedon"
description: "Dionysius of Chalcedon was a Greek philosopher and dialectician connected with the Megarian school. He was a native of Chalcedon on the coast of Bithynia. Dionysius was the person who first used the name Dialecticians to describe a splinter group within the Megarian school \"because they put their arguments into the form of question and answer\". One area of activity for the dialecticians was the framing of definitions, and Aristotle criticises a definition of life by Dionysius in his Topics:\nThis is, moreover, what happens to Dionysius' definition of \"life\" when stated as \"a movement of a creature sustained by nutriment, congenitally present with it\""
tagline: "Ancient Greek philosopher"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "-400"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.68
  momentum:             1.41025641025641
  historical:           5.269870666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysius_of_Chalcedon"
    title: "Dionysius of Chalcedon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionisi_de_Calced%C3%B2nia"
    title: "Dionisi de Calcedònia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysios_von_Chalkedon"
    title: "Dionysios von Chalkedon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysios_Khalkedonilainen"
    title: "Dionysios Khalkedonilainen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionisio_de_Calcedonia"
    title: "Dionisio de Calcedonia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysios_Chalkedonist"
    title: "Dionysios Chalkedonist"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4354636"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump