Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, Robert Gregg Bury (Translator), 1.28.208

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[208] Besides this we must also remember that we do not employ them universally about all things, but about those which are non-evident and are objects of dogmatic inquiry; and that we state what appears to us and do not make any positive declarations as to the real nature of external objects; for I think that, as a result of this, every sophism¹ directed against a Sceptic expression can be refuted.

Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes. Sextus Empiricus. Robert Gregg Bury (Translator). London. 1933.

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism (English) (Sextus Empiricus, Vol. 1. Bury, Robert Gregg, translator. London: William Heinemann Ltd.; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1933.)

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Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes First1KGreek (Sextus Empiricus. Sexti Empiricii Opera, Volume 1. Mutschmann, Hermann, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1912.) — 1.28.208 focus

[208] πρὸς τούτοις κἀκείνου δεῖ μεμνῆσθαι, ὅτι οὐ περὶ πάντων τῶν πραγμάτων καθόλου φαμὲν αὐτάς, ἀλλὰ περὶ τῶν ἀδήλων καὶ τῶν δογματικῶς ζητουμένων, καὶ ὅτι τὸ φαινόμενον ἡμῖν
φαμεν καὶ οὐχὶ διαβεβαιωτικῶς περὶ τῆς φύσεως τῶν ἐκτὸς ὑποκειμένων ἀποφαινόμεθα· ἐκ γὰρ τούτων πᾶν σόφισμα πρὸς φωνὴν ἐνεχθὲν σκεπτικὴν οἴομαι δύνασθαι διατρέπεσθαι.

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism

1. Suggesting that such attacks must involve the fallacy of ignoratio elenchi.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 1.28.208

Robert Gregg Bury (Translator)

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