Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, Robert Gregg Bury (Translator), 3.18.127

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[127] Therefore no dimension of a subsisting place exists. And, consequently, place is nothing.

This argument also is propounded.¹ Since the dimensions are not found to be twofold in the case of each of the objects said to exist in place, but there is one length, one breadth and one depth, do these dimensions belong to the body only, or to the place only, or to both? If they belong only to the place, the body will have no length or breadth or depth of its own, so that the body will not even be body, which is absurd.

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.) — 3.18.127 focus

[127] ἐρωτᾶται
δὲ καὶ οὗτος ὁ λόγος. ἐπεὶ διπλαῖ αἱ διαστάσεις οὐ θεωροῦνται καθ’ ἕκαστον τῶν ἐν τόπῳ εἶναι λεγομένων, ἀλλ’ ‘ὲν μῆκος καὶ ‘ὲν πλάτος καὶ ὲν βάθος, πότερον μόνου τοῦ σώματός εἰσιν αἱ διαστάσεις αὗται ἢ μόνου τοῦ τόπου ἢ ἀμφοτέρων; ἀλλ’ εἰ μὲν μόνου τοῦ τόπου, οὐχ ἔξει τὸ
σῶμα ἴδιον μῆκος οὐδὲ πλάτος οὐδὲ βάθος οὐθέν, ὥστε οὐδὲ σῶμα ἔσται τὸ σῶμα, ὅπερ ἄτοπον.

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism

1. This argument raises the question—since ‟body” and ‟place” coincide (spatially), to which of the two do the ‟dimensions” belong, as we cannot assume two sets of dimensions in the same place? To ascribe them to the ‟body” annuls ‟place” and vice versa.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.18.127

Robert Gregg Bury (Translator)

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