Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.11.106

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[106] προκαθηγούμενον δὲ λέγουσι τὸ ἐν συνημμένῳ ἀρχομένῳ ἀπὸ ἀληθοῦς
καὶ λήγοντι ἐπὶ ἀληθὲς ἡγούμενον. ἐκκαλυπτικὸν δέ ἐστι τοῦ λήγοντος, ἐπεὶ τὸ ‘γάλα ἔχει αὕτη τοῦ ‘κεκύηκεν αὕτη δηλωτικὸν εἷναι δοκεῖ ἐν τούτῳ τῷ συνημμένῳ ‘εἰ γάλα ἔχει αὕτη, κεκύηκεν αὕτη'.

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.) — 2.11.106 focus

[106] ‟Antecedent,” they say, is ‟the precedent clause in a hypothetical syllogism which begins in truth and ends in truth.” And it ‟serves to reveal the consequent,” since in the syllogism ‟If this woman has milk, she has conceived,” the clause ‟If this woman has milk” seems to be evidential of the clause ‟she has conceived.”¹

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