Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, Robert Gregg Bury (Translator), 2.13.166

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[166] And (not to dwell on the matter now) in the case of the other primary¹ categorical arguments also it is possible to employ similar methods of reasoning.

Since, however, these arguments which the Dialecticians² lay down as the foundations of their syllogisms are redundant, by reason of this redundancy the whole of Dialectic is thus far overthrown, seeing that we cannot distinguish the redundant, and consequently inconclusive, arguments from what are called the conclusive syllogisms.

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.) — 2.13.166 focus

[166] παραπλησίαις δὲ μεθόδοις καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἄλλων πρώτων κατηγορικῶν λόγων χρῆσθαι δυνατόν ἐστιν, ἵνα μὴ νῦν ἐνδιατρίβωμεν.
Πλὴν ἐπεὶ παρέλκουσιν οὗτοι οἱ λόγοι ἐν οἷς τὴν ὑποβάθραν τῶν συλλογισμῶν οἱ διαλεκτικοὶ τίθενται, ὅσον ἐπὶ τῇ παρολκῇ διατρέπεται πᾶσα ἡ διαλεκτική, μὴ δυναμένων ἡμῶν διακρῖναι τοὺς παρέλκοντας καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἀσυνάκτους λόγους ἀπὸ τῶν συνακτικῶν καλουμένων συλλογισμῶν.

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism

1. i.e. of the First Figure: the previous examples are cases of Barbara and Darii, so ‟the others” would belong to Celarent and Ferio. But Heintz’s suggestion, τρόπων τῶν (for πρώτων), ‟the other figures,” may well be right.

2. i.e. Stoics and Peripatetics, cf. § 146 supra.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.13.166

Robert Gregg Bury (Translator)

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