Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 1.34.236

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[236] Ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ τῇ ἐμπειρίᾳ τῇ κατὰ τὴν ἰατρικὴν αἱρέσει τὴν αὐτὴν εἶναι λέγουσί τινες τὴν σκεπτικὴν φιλοσοφίαν, γνωστέον ὅτι, εἴπερ ἡ ἐμπειρία ἐκείνη περὶ τῆς ἀκαταληψίας
τῶν ἀδήλων διαβεβαιοῦται, οὔτε ἡ αὐτή ἐστι τῇ σκέψει οὔτε ἁρμόζοι ἂν τῷ σκεπτικῷ τὴν αἵρεσιν ἐκείνην ἀναλαμβάνειν. μᾶλλον δὲ τὴν καλουμένην μέθοδον, ὧς ἐμοὶ δοκεῖ, δύναιτο ἂν μετιέναι·

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.) — 1.34.236 focus

[236] Since some allege that the Sceptic philosophy is identical with the Empiricism of the Medical sect,¹ it must be recognized that inasmuch as that Empiricism positively affirms the inapprehensibility of what is non-evident it is not identical with Scepticism nor would it be consistent in a Sceptic to embrace that doctrine. He could more easily, in my opinion, adopt the so-called ‟Method;”

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