Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, Robert Gregg Bury (Translator), 2.10.101

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[101] An ‟indicative” sign, they say, is that which is not clearly associated with the thing signified, but signifies that whereof it is a sign by its own particular nature and constitution, just as, for instance, the bodily motions are signs of the soul. Hence, too, they define this sign as follows: ‟An indicative sign is an antecedent judgement, in a sound hypothetical syllogism,¹ which serves to reveal the consequent.”

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.) — 2.10.101 focus

[101] ἐνδεικτικὸν δέ ἐστι σημεῖον, ὥς φασιν, ὃ μὴ συμπαρατηρηθὲν τῷ σημειωτῷ δι’ ἐναργείας, ἀλλ’ ἐκ τῆς ἰδίας φύσεως καὶ κατασκευῆς ¹ σημαίνει τὸ οὗ ἐστι σημεῖον, ὡσπεροῦν αἱ περὶ τὸ
σῶμα κινήσεις σημεῖά εἰσι τῆς ψυχῆς. ὅθεν καὶ ὁρίζονται
αἰτίους EAB 9 παρά Gen. dubitanter: περί GT (circa) 9a καιρούς Τ (per tempora) cf. p. 319,3 Ih καταλαμβάνεται Τ (apprehenduntur) 23 σημειωτῷ Bekk.: σημείω rw MLT (in signo quod est): σημαινομένω tw EAB 25/20 ἐναργῶς LT (manifeste): ἐναργοῦς MEAB 28 σημειωτῷ Τ (significato): σημείω τῶ G 29 καὶ om L 79 τοῦτο τὸ σημεῖον οὕτως ῾σημεῖόν ἐστιν ἐνδεικτικὸν ἀξίωμα ἐν ὑγιεῖ συνημμένῳ προκαθηγούμενον, ἐκκαλυπτικὸν τοῦ λήγοντος.᾿

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism

1. Cf. § 104 infra. As smoke ‟indicates” fire, so in the hypothetical syllogism—‟If there is smoke, there is fire; but in fact there is smoke; therefore there is fire”—the ‟antecedent” (or ‟if”-clause) ‟reveals” (or is a ‟sign” of) the ‟consequent” judgement ‟there is fire.”

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.10.101

Robert Gregg Bury (Translator)

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