Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 1.28.207

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[207] φαμὲν δὲ καὶ ὡς οὐ κυρίως δηλοῦντες τὰ πράγματα, ἐφ’ ὧν παραλαμβάνονται, τίθεμεν αὐτάς, ἀλλ’ ἀδιαφόρως καὶ εἰ βούλονται καταχρηστικῶς· οὔτε γὰρ πρέπει τῷ σκεπτικῷ φωνομαχεῖν, ἄλλως τε ἡμῖν συνεργεῖ
τὸ μηδὲ ταύτας τἀς φωνὰς εἰλικρινῶς σημαίνειν λέγεσθαι, ἀλλὰ πρός τι καὶ ὧς πρὸς τοὺς σκεπτικούς.

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.) — 1.28.207 focus

[207] And we also say that we employ them not by way of authoritatively explaining the things with reference to which we adopt them, but without precision and, if you like, loosely; for it does not become the Sceptic to wrangle over expressions,¹ and besides it is to our advantage that even to these expressions no absolute significance should be ascribed, but one that is relative and relative to the Sceptics.

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