Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, Robert Gregg Bury (Translator), 3.8.59

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[59] It only remains to say that both the qualities and the substances of the mixed things permeate one another¹ and by their blending produce Mixture. But this is a more absurd view than any of the foregoing; for such a mixture is impossible. Thus, for example, if a cup of hemlock juice were blended with ten cups of water, it will be said that the hemlock is mixed in with all the water; for certainly if one were to take even the least portion of the mixture he would find it full of the potency of the hemlock.

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.) — 3.8.59 focus

[59] λείπεται λέγειν, ὅτι καὶ αἱ ποιότητες τῶν κιρναμένων καὶ αἱ οὐσίαι χωροῦσι δι’ ἀλλήλων καὶ μιγνύμεναι τὴν κρᾶσιν ἀποτελοῦσιν. ὃ τῶν προειρημένων ἐστὶν ἀτοπώτερον’ ἀδύνατος γάρ ἐστιν ἡ τοιαύτη κρᾶσις. οἶον γοῦν ἐὰν δέκα κοτύλαις
ὕδατος κωνείου χυλοῦ κοτύλη μιχθῇ, παντὶ τῷ ὕδατι συνανακίρνασθαι ἂν λέγοιτο τὸ κώνειον· εἰ γοῦν καί τι βραχύτατον μέρος τοῦ μίγματος λάβοι τις, εὑρήσει πεπληρωμένον αὐτὸ τῆς τοῦ κωνείου δυνάμεως.

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism

1. Chrysippus held that ‟mixture” is not effected by superficial ‟juxtaposition” but by the mutual ‟permeation” or ‟interpenetration” of the constituents of the mixture: ‟qualities” as well as substances he regarded as corporeal and thus capable of being ‟penetrated.”

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.8.59

Robert Gregg Bury (Translator)

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