Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.10.75

[75] Some, however, make this statement: Place is used in two senses, the broad sense, as for example ‟my house,” and the exact sense, ¹ as for instance ‟the air which enfolds the surface of my body.” So the moving object is said to move in place, ‟place” being used not in the exact sense but in the broad sense. To these we can reply by dividing up ‟place” in the broad sense, and saying that in one part of it the body said to be moved properly exists, this being its own ‟place” in the exact sense, and in the other part it does not exist, this being the remaining portions of ‟place” in the extended sense; next we shall argue that an object can move neither in the place where it is nor in that where it is not, and so conclude that nothing can move even in what is perversely termed ‟place” in the broad sense; for this is composed of the place wherein it is in the exact sense and the place wherein it is not, and it has been proved that a thing cannot move in either of these.