Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.1.7

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[7] ὁ γὰρ περί τινος ἀδήλου πράγματος ἀποφαίνεσθαι τε καὶ δογματίζων ἤτοι κατειληφὼς αὐτὸ ἀποφαίνεσθαι περὶ αὐτοῦ λέξει ἢ μὴ κατειληφώς. ἀλλ’ εἰ μὲν μὴ κατειληφώς, ἄπιστος ἔσται· εἰ δὲ κατειληφώς,
ἤτοι αὐτόθεν καὶ ἐξ ἑαυτοῦ καὶ κατ’ ἐνάργειαν ὑποπεσὸν αὐτῷ τοῦτο λέξει κατειληφέναι ἢ διά τινος ἐρεύνης καὶ ζητήσεως.

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.) — 2.1.7 focus

[7] For he who makes a dogmatic statement about a non-evident object will declare that he is making it either after having apprehended or after having not apprehended it. But if he has not apprehended it he will not gain credence; while if he has apprehended it, he will say that he has apprehended the object directly and through itself and owing to the clear impression it has made on him, or else by means of some kind of search and inquiry.¹

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