Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.11.108

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[108] — διὰ τοῦ ζητουμένου
τοίνυν τὸ ζητούμενον πιστοῦσθαι βούλεται ὁ ἐκ τῆς ὑπάρξεως τοῦ συστήματος τῶν λεκτῶν εἶναί τι λεκτὸν πειρώμενος κατασκευάζειν. εἰ οὖν μήτε ἁπλῶς μήτε δι’ ἀποδείξεως ἐνδέχεται παριστᾶν ὅτι ἔστι τι λεκτόν, ἄδηλόν ἐστιν ὅτι ἔστι τι λεκτόν. ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ εἰ ἔστιν ἀξίωμα·

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.) — 2.11.108 focus

[108] —it follows that the man who attempts to establish the existence of expression from the reality of the system of expressions is proposing to confirm the problematic by the problematic. If, then, it is impossible to establish either simply or by means of demonstration that any expression exists, it is non-evident that any expression exists.

So, too, with the question whether judgement exists; for the judgement is a form of expression.

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