Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.7.70

[70] Let us consider next the Criterion ‟According to which,” as they ¹ say, objects are judged. In the first place, then, we may say this of it, that ‟presentation” is inconceivable. They declare that ‟presentation” is an impression on ‟the regent part.” ² Since, then, the soul, and the regent part, is breath or something more subtile than breath, ³ as they affirm, no one will be able to conceive of an impression upon it either by way of depression and eminence, as we see in the case of seals, or by way of the magical ‟alteration” they talk about; ⁴ for the soul will not be able to conserve the remembrance of all the concepts that compose an art, since the pre-existing concepts are obliterated by the subsequent ‟alterations.”