Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, Robert Gregg Bury (Translator), 3.17.115

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[115] In like manner some have doubted about physical rest,¹ say ing that what is in motion is not at rest, but every body i is constantly in motion according to the views of the Dogmatists who assert that Being is in flux² and always undergoing effluxes and additions— just as Plato does not even speak of bodies as ‟being” but rather calls them ‟becoming,” and Heracleitus compares the mobility of our matter³ to the swift current of a river. Therefore no body is at rest.

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.) — 3.17.115 focus

[115] Ἑπομένως δὲ καὶ περὶ τῆς ὡς πρὸς τὴν φύσιν μονῆς ἠπόρησάν τινες λέγοντες, ὅτι τὸ κινούμενον οὐ μένει,
πᾶν δὲ σῶμα διαρκῶς κινεῖται κατὰ τἀς τῶν δογματικῶν
ὑπολήψεις, ῥευστὴν εἶναι λεγόντων τὴν οὐσίαν καὶ ἀεὶ διαφορήσεις τε καὶ προσθέσεις ποίου μένην, ὧς τὸν μὲν Πλάτωνα (cf. ’ξ 54) μηδὲ ὄντα λέγειν τὰ σώματα ἀλλὰ γινόμενα μᾶλλον καλεῖν, τὸν δὲ Ἡράκλειτον
ὀξείᾳ ποταμοῦ ῥύσει τὴν εὐκινησίαν τῆς ἡμετέρας ὕλης ἀπε ικάζε ἱν. οὐδὲν ἄρα σῶμα μένε.

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism

1. i.e. ‟rest” as the opposite of motion in general, not of locomotion only (as in the Stoic use of the term); cf. Adv. Phys. ii. 245 ff.

2. Cf. §§ 51, 54 supra.

3. i.e. ‟matter” (in the ordinary sense) of ‟our” physical universe, as distinct from any logical or metaphysical use of the term.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.17.115

Robert Gregg Bury (Translator)

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