Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, Robert Gregg Bury (Translator), 3.16.113

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[113] If, then, neither the non-existent becomes nor the existent, nothing becomes at all.

For the same reasons, neither does anything perish.¹ For if anything perishes, it is either the existent that perishes or the non-existent. Now the non-existent does not perish, for what perishes must be a subject of action. Nor yet does the existent perish. For it must perish either while continuing in existence or while not so continuing. And if it be while continuing in existence, it will be at one and the same time both existent and 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.) — 3.16.113 focus

[113] εἰ οὖν ¹²³⁴⁵ 147 μήτε τὸ μὴ ὂν γίνεται μήτε τὸ ὄν, οὐδὲ γίνεταί τι. κατὰ τὰ αὐτὰ δὲ οὐδὲ φθείρεται. εἰ γὰρ φθείρεταί τι,
ἤτοι τὸ ὂν φθείρεται ἢ τὸ μὴ ὄν. τὸ μὲν οὖν οὐκ ὂν οὐ φθείρεται· πάσχειν γάρ τι δεῖ τὸ φθειρόμεν·ον. ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ τὸ ὄν. ἤτοι γὰρ μένον ἐν τῷ ὂν εἶναι φθείρεται ἢ μὴ μένον. καὶ εἰ μὲν μένον ἐν τῷ ὂν εἶναι, ἔσται τὸ αὐτὸ ἄμα καὶ ὂν καὶ οὐκ ὄν·

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism

1. Cf. Adv. Phys. ii. 344 f.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.16.113

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