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[111] ‟If atomic elements of things do not exist, atomic elements exist,” seems true, since it begins with the false clause ‟atomic elements do not exist” and will end, according to him, with the true clause ‟atomic elements exist.” And those who introduce ‟connexion,” or ‟coherence,”
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assert that it is a valid hypothetical syllogism whenever the opposite of its consequent contradicts its antecedent clause; so that, according to them, the above-mentioned syllogisms are invalid, whereas the syllogism ‟If day exists, day exists” is true.
Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes. Sextus Empiricus. Robert Gregg Bury (Translator). London. 1933.
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