Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, Robert Gregg Bury (Translator), 3.14.98

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[98] So too with both whole and part.¹ For the whole is held to come about by the combination and addition of the parts, and to cease from being a whole by the subtraction of one or more parts. Besides, if a whole exists, it is either other than its parts² or its parts themselves form the whole.

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.) — 3.14.98 focus

[98] Καὶ τὸ ὅλον δὲ καὶ τὸ μέρος. κατὰ μὲν γὰρ συνέλευσιν καὶ πρόσθεσιν τῶν μερῶν τὸ ὅλον γίγνεσθαι δοκεῖ, κατ’ ἀφαίρεσιν δέ τινος ἤ τινων παύεσθαι τοῦ ὅλον εἶναι. καὶ ἄλλως δέ, εἰ ἔστι τι ὅλον, ἤτοι ἕτερόν ἐστι παρὰ τὰ
μέρη αὐτοῦ ἢ αὐτὰ τὰ μέρη αὐτοῦ <τὸ> ὅλον ἐστίν.

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism

1. Cf. ii. 215 ff., Adv. Phys. i. 330 ff.

2. The view of Epicurus; the Stoics said that the whole is neither the same as its parts nor different.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.14.98

Robert Gregg Bury (Translator)

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