Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, Robert Gregg Bury (Translator), 2.1.5

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[5] Thus, for example, when the Stoic criticizes the statement of the Epicurean that ‟Being is divided,”¹ or that ‟God does not foreknow events in the Universe,” or that ‟Pleasure is the Good,” has he apprehended or has he not apprehended? If he has apprehended these dogmas, by asserting their real truth he entirely overthrows the Porch; while if he has not apprehended them, he is unable to say anything against them.

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.) — 2.1.5 focus

[5] οἷον γοῦν ὅταν ὁ Στωικὸς πρὸς τὸν Ἐπικούρειον ζητῇ λέγοντα ὅτι διῄρηται ἡ οὐσία ἢ ὧς ὁ θεὸς οὐ προνοεῖ τῶν ἐν κόσμῳ ἢ
ὅτι ἡ ἡδονὴ ἀγαθόν, πότερον κατείληφεν ἢ οὐ κατείφησὶ ¹ 57 ληφεν; καὶ εἰ μὲν κατείληφεν, ὑπάρχειν αὐτὰ λέγων ἄρδην ἀναιρεῖ τὴν Στοάν· εἰ δ’ οὐ κατείληφεν, οὐ δύναταί τι πρὸς αὐτὰ λέγειν.

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism

1. It is uncertain to what ‟division” this refers—whether that of God from the world (Fabricius), of Body from Void (Zimmermann), of the ‟numberless worlds” from one another (Pappenheim), or (as seems simplest) of Body into numberless atomic fractions. For the dicta about ‟God” and ‟Pleasure” cf. iii. 219.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.1.5

Robert Gregg Bury (Translator)

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