Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, Robert Gregg Bury (Translator), 2.13.180

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[180] Furthermore, there is this also to be said. Proof is a matter of controversy; for some declare that it does not even exist, as do those who assert that nothing at all exists,¹ but others, including the majority of the Dogmatists, that it does exist; and we affirm that it is ‟no more”² existent than non- existent.

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.) — 2.13.180 focus

[180] Πρὸς τούτοις κἀκεῖνο λεκτέον. διαπεφώνηται περὶ τῆς ἀποδείξεως· οἱ μὲν γὰρ μηδὲ εἶναι λέγουσιν αὐτήν, ὧς οἱ μηδὲν ὅλως εἶναι φάσκοντες, οἱ δὲ εἶναι, ὧς οἱ πολλοὶ τῶν δογματικῶν· ἡμεῖς δὲ μὴ μᾶλλον εἶναι αὐτὴν ἢ μὴ εἷναι φαμέν.

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism

1. i.e. is real, as opposed to phenomenal; so Xenophanes, Xeniades, Gorgias, cf. § 18.

2. For this Sceptic formula cf. i. 188.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.13.180

Robert Gregg Bury (Translator)

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