Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, Robert Gregg Bury (Translator), 2.14.194

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[194] Yet perhaps it will not be amiss to go further¹ and deal with them separately, especially since these thinkers pride themselves upon them. Now there is much that one can say by way of suggesting their unreality, but in an outline sketch it is sufficient to treat of them by the method which follows. And I will deal at present with the axiomatic² arguments; for if these are destroyed all the rest of the arguments are overthrown as well, since it is from these that they derive the proof of their deductions.

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.) — 2.14.194 focus

[194] ἐξ ἐπιμέτρου δὲ οὐ χεῖρον ἴσως καὶ ἰδίᾳ περὶ αὐτῶν διαλαβεῖν, ἐπεὶ μάλιστα
ἐπ’ αὐτοῖς μέγα φρονοῦσιν. πολλὰ μὲν οὖν λέγειν τὸ ἀνυπόστατον αὐτῶν ὑπομιμνῄσκοντας· ὡς ἐν ὑποτυπώσει δὲ ἀρκεῖ τῇδε τῇ μεθόδῳ χρῆσθαι κατὰ αὐτῶν. λέξω δὲ καὶ νῦν περὶ τῶν ἀναποδείκτων· τούτων γὰρ ἀναιρουμένων καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ σύμπαντες λόγοι διατρέπονται,
τὴν ἀπόδειξιν τοῦ συνάγειν ἀπ’ αὐτῶν ἔχοντες.

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism

1. For the phrase ἐξ ἐπιμέτρου, ‟into the bargain,” cf. § 47 supra.

2. Or ‟non-demonstrable,” including here categorical syllogisms as well as those mentioned in § 157 supra.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.14.194

Robert Gregg Bury (Translator)

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