Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 1.32.216

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[216] Καὶ ὁ Πρωταγόρας (A 14 Diels) δὲ βούλεται πάντων χρημάτων εἶναι μέτρον τὸν ἄνθρωπον, τῶν μὲν ¹ 49
ὄντων ὧς ἔστιν, τῶν δὲ οὐκ ὄντων ὧς οὐκ ἔστιν, ‘μέτρον’ μὲν λέγων τὸ κριτήριον, ‘χρημάτων’ δὲ τῶν πραγμάτων, ὧς δυνάμει φάσκειν πάντων πραγμάτων κριτήριον εἶναι τὸν ἄνθρωπον, τῶν μὲν ὄντων ὡς ἔστιν, τῶν δὲ οὐκ ὄντων ὡς οὐκ ἔστιν. καὶ διὰ τοῦτο τίθησι τὰ φαινόμενα
ἑκάστῳ μόνα, καὶ οὕτως εἰσάγει τὸ πρός τι.

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.) — 1.32.216 focus

[216] Protagoras¹ also holds that ‟Man is the measure of all things, of existing things that they exist, and of non-existing things that they exist not;” and by ‟measure” he means the criterion, and by ‟things” the objects, so that he is virtually asserting that ‟Man is the criterion of all objects, of those which exist that they exist, and of those which exist not that they exist not.” And consequently he posits only what appears to each individual, and thus he introduces relativity.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. 30/31 καταλαμβάνεσθαι Pohlenz coll. adv. dogm. I
καταλαμβάνειν GrT (comprehendere) 5 περὶ om. Τ

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 1.32.216

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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