Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 1.13.33

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[33] νοούμενα δὲ φαινομένοις, ὡς ὁ Ἀναξαγόρας (A 97 Diels) τῷ <κατασκευάζοντι> λευκὴν εἶναι τὴν χιόνα ὅτι ἡ χιὼν ὕδωρ ἐστὶ πεπηγός, τὸ δὲ ὕδωρ
ἐστὶ μέλαν, καὶ ἡ χιὼν ἄρα μέλαινά ἐστιν. καθ’ ¹ ἑτέραν δὲ ἐπίνοιαν ἀντιτίθεμεν ὁτὲ μὲν παρόντα παροῦσιν, ὧς τὰ προειρημένα· ὁτὲ δὲ παρόντα παρεληλυθόσιν ἢ μέλλουσιν, οἷον ὅταν τις ἡμᾶς ἐρωτήσῃ λόγον ὃν λῦσαι οὐ δυνάμεθα, φαμὲν πρὸς αὐτὸν ὅτι,

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.) — 1.13.33 focus

[33] And thoughts we oppose to appearances, as when Anaxagoras¹ countered the notion that snow is white with the argument, ‟Snow is frozen water, and water is black; therefore snow also is black.” With a different idea we oppose things present sometimes to things present, as in the foregoing examples, and sometimes to things past or future, as, for instance, when someone propounds to us a theory which we are unable to refute, we say to him in reply,

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