Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, Robert Gregg Bury (Translator), 1.33.227

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[227] And as regards sense-impressions, we say¹ that they are equal in respect of probability and improbability, so far as their essence is concerned, whereas they assert that some impressions are probable, others improbable.

And respecting the probable impressions they make distinctions: some they regard as just simply probable, others as probable and tested, others as probable, tested, and ‟irreversible.”² For example, when a rope is lying coiled up in a dark room, to one who enters hurriedly it presents the simply ‟probable” appearance of being a serpent;

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.) — 1.33.227 focus

[227] τάς τε φαντασίας ἡμεῖς μὲν ἴσας λέγομεν εἶναι κατὰ πίστιν ἢ ἀπιστίαν ὅσον ἐπὶ τῷ λόγῳ, ἐκεῖνοι δὲ τἀς μὲν ¹² 52 πιθανὰς εἶναί φασι τὰς δὲ ἀπιθάνους. καὶ τῶν πιθανῶν
δὲ λέγουσι διαφοράς· τὰς μὲν γὰρ αὐτὸ μόνον πιθανὰς ὑπάρχειν ἡγοῦνται, τὰς δὲ πιθανὰς καὶ διεξωδευμένας, δὲ πιθανὰς καὶ περιωδευμένας καὶ ἀπερισπάστους. οἷον ἐν οἴκῳ σκοτεινῷ ποσῶς κειμένου σχοινίου ἐσπ.ειραμένου πιθανὴ ἁπλῶς φαντασία ³ γίνεται ἀπὸ τούτου ὡς ἀπὸ ὄφεως τῷ ἀθρόως
ἐπεισελθόντι·

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism

1. Cf. § 117.

2. διεξωδευμένας and περιωδευμένας mean literally ‟gone all through” (or ‟all over”), hence ‟thoroughly inspected,” ‟scrutinized:” ἀπερισπάστους, ‟not able to be drawn round” (or ‟stripped off”), hence ‟indubitable.”

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 1.33.227

Robert Gregg Bury (Translator)

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