Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 1.11.22

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[22] κριτήριον τοίνυν φαμὲν εἶναι τῆς σκεπτικῆς ἀγωγῆς τὸ φαινόμενον, δυνάμει τὴν φαντασίαν οὕτω καλοῦντες· ¹ 7 ἐν πείσει γὰρ καὶ ἀβουλήτῳ πάθει κειμένη ἀζήτητός ἐστιν. διὸ περὶ μὲν τοῦ φαίνεσθαι τοῖον ἢ τοῖον τὸ ὑποκείμενον
οὐδεὶς ἴσως ἀμφισβητήσει, περὶ δὲ τοῦ εἰ τοιοῦτον ἔστιν ὁποῖον φαίνεται ζητεῖται.

Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes. Sextus Empiricus. ed. Hermann Mutschmann. Germany. 2014.

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Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes (Greek) (Sextus Empiricus. Sexti Empiricii Opera, Volume 1. Mutschmann, Hermann, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1912.)

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism First1KGreek (Sextus Empiricus, Vol. 1. Bury, Robert Gregg, translator. London: William Heinemann Ltd.; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1933.) — 1.11.22 focus

[22] The criterion, then, of the Sceptic School is, we say, the appearance, giving this name to what is virtually the sense-presentation. For since this lies in feeling and involuntary affection, it is not open to question. Consequently, no one, I suppose, disputes that the underlying object has this or that appearance; the point in dispute is whether the object is in reality such as it appears to be.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. 1 ἀναιροῦσι om. EAB 3 παθητικὴν LMT (fantasiam passibilem) : παθητικὰ EAB 4 ἄγοντας EAB 10 μὲν addidi
τὸ add. coll. v. 8 || καὶ ἄντικρυς om. T 14 τὸ φαινόμενον EAB Gen. 19 αὐτῶν L 24 οὖν EAB 26/27 λέγομεν κρτήριον εἷναι· φαμὲν εἶναι περὶ τῆς σκ. EAB 28 <αὐτοῦ> οὕτω Fabr. e codice Saviliano

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 1.11.22

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