Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, Robert Gregg Bury (Translator), 1.34.236

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[236] Since some allege that the Sceptic philosophy is identical with the Empiricism of the Medical sect,¹ it must be recognized that inasmuch as that Empiricism positively affirms the inapprehensibility of what is non-evident it is not identical with Scepticism nor would it be consistent in a Sceptic to embrace that doctrine. He could more easily, in my opinion, adopt the so-called ‟Method;”

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.) — 1.34.236 focus

[236] Ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ τῇ ἐμπειρίᾳ τῇ κατὰ τὴν ἰατρικὴν αἱρέσει τὴν αὐτὴν εἶναι λέγουσί τινες τὴν σκεπτικὴν φιλοσοφίαν, γνωστέον ὅτι, εἴπερ ἡ ἐμπειρία ἐκείνη περὶ τῆς ἀκαταληψίας
τῶν ἀδήλων διαβεβαιοῦται, οὔτε ἡ αὐτή ἐστι τῇ σκέψει οὔτε ἁρμόζοι ἂν τῷ σκεπτικῷ τὴν αἵρεσιν ἐκείνην ἀναλαμβάνειν. μᾶλλον δὲ τὴν καλουμένην μέθοδον, ὧς ἐμοὶ δοκεῖ, δύναιτο ἂν μετιέναι·

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism

1. The later schools of medicine were three: (1) the Dogmatic or Logical, which theorized about the ‟non-evident” causes of health and disease; (2) the Empiric, which regarded such causes as indiscoverable and confined itself to observation of evident facts; (3) the Methodic, which adopted an intermediate position, refusing either to affirm or deny ‟non-evident” causes; cf. Introd. p. xl.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 1.34.236

Robert Gregg Bury (Translator)

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