Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 1.33.227

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[227] τάς τε φαντασίας ἡμεῖς μὲν ἴσας λέγομεν εἶναι κατὰ πίστιν ἢ ἀπιστίαν ὅσον ἐπὶ τῷ λόγῳ, ἐκεῖνοι δὲ τἀς μὲν ¹² 52 πιθανὰς εἶναί φασι τὰς δὲ ἀπιθάνους. καὶ τῶν πιθανῶν
δὲ λέγουσι διαφοράς· τὰς μὲν γὰρ αὐτὸ μόνον πιθανὰς ὑπάρχειν ἡγοῦνται, τὰς δὲ πιθανὰς καὶ διεξωδευμένας, δὲ πιθανὰς καὶ περιωδευμένας καὶ ἀπερισπάστους. οἷον ἐν οἴκῳ σκοτεινῷ ποσῶς κειμένου σχοινίου ἐσπ.ειραμένου πιθανὴ ἁπλῶς φαντασία ³ γίνεται ἀπὸ τούτου ὡς ἀπὸ ὄφεως τῷ ἀθρόως
ἐπεισελθόντι·

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.) — 1.33.227 focus

[227] And as regards sense-impressions, we say¹ that they are equal in respect of probability and improbability, so far as their essence is concerned, whereas they assert that some impressions are probable, others improbable.

And respecting the probable impressions they make distinctions: some they regard as just simply probable, others as probable and tested, others as probable, tested, and ‟irreversible.”² For example, when a rope is lying coiled up in a dark room, to one who enters hurriedly it presents the simply ‟probable” appearance of being a serpent;

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. §§ 226–231 ~ adv. dogm. IT 166–189 cf. Mus. Rhen, LXVI (1911) p. 190 sqq.

2. 23 Ξεινοφάνης Gen.: Ξενοφάνης G 24 εἰ τὸν Diels: ἔα τὸν G: ἔκ τὸν Paris. Suppl. 133: ἐκτὸς Bekk.: ὃς τὸν Roeper || ἀπ’ ἀνθρώπων Fabr.: ἀπάνθρωπον G 25 ἀτρεμῆ add. Diels II νοερώτερον Diels: νοερωτὸν G 26 μὲν om. L 26/27 ὁμηραπάτης M: ὁμηραπάτην L: ὁμυραπάτην EAB: 6 ἐπαπορεῖ EAB 8 ἄδηλα <ἀδήλων> Pappenheim 10 οἱ MET (qui autem): οὐ L: εἰ AB (deerat prima litera in archetypo) 11 εἶναι MLT (esse): οὖν EAB || πάντα om. Μ 12 πάντα om. M 13 καὶ om. T 14 et in T 19 ἀγαθῶν et κακῶν EAB

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