Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, Robert Gregg Bury (Translator), 1.34.240

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[240] For just as the Sceptic uses the expressions ‟I determine nothing” and ‟I apprehend nothing,” as we have said, in an undogmatic sense, even so the Methodic speaks of ‟generality”¹ and ‟pervade” and the like in a non-committal way. So also he employs the term ‟indication” in an undogmatic sense to denote the guidance derived from the apparent affections, or symptoms, both natural and contra-natural, for the discovery of the seemingly appropriate remedies— as, in fact, I mentioned in regard to hunger and thirst and the other affections.

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.) — 1.34.240 focus

[240] ὡς γὰρ ὁ σκεπτικὸς <ἀδοξάστως> χρῆται τῇ ‘οὐδὲν ὁρίζω᾿ φωνῇ καὶ τῇ ‘οὐδὲν καταλαμβάνω,’ καθάπερ εἰρήκαμεν, οὕτω καὶ ὁ μεθοδικὸς
‘κοινότητα’ λέγει καὶ ‘διήκειν’ καὶ τὰ παραπλήσια ἀπεριέργως. οὕτω δὲ καὶ τὸ τῆς ἐνδείξεως ὄνομα ἀδοξάστως παραλαμβάνει ἀντὶ τῆς ἀπὸ τῶν φαινομένων παθῶν τῶν τε κατὰ φύσιν καὶ τῶν παρὰ φύσιν ὁδηγήσεως ἐπὶ τὰ κατάλληλα
εἶναι δοκοῦντα, ὡς καὶ ἐπὶ δίψους καὶ ἐπὶ λιμοῦ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ὑπεμίμνῃσκον.

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism

1. Or ‟generic character.” All diseases being referred to one or other of the two ‟general” morbid states, over-contraction or over-dilation of the pores or passages of the body, each of these ‟general” states was said to ‟pervade” all the cases which exhibited the symptoms of that state. The ‟genus” ‟pervades” (its characteristics run through) its ‟species” and ‟particulars.”

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