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[133] But sign either exists or exists not; therefore sign does not exist.”
Regarding also the phrases used in support of the sign,
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let the Dogmatists themselves say in reply to our argument whether they signify something or signify nothing. For if they signify nothing, the existence of sign is not confirmed; whereas if they signify something, the thing signified will follow them; and it was ‟the existence of a sign.” And from this follows, as we have shown, the non-existence of sign, because of the reversal of the argument.
In short, then, since such plausible arguments are adduced both for the existence and for the non- existence of sign, we must declare that sign is ‟no more”
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existent than non-existent.
Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes. Sextus Empiricus. Robert Gregg Bury (Translator). London. 1933.
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