Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 2.11.110

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[110] ἴνα δὲ καὶ ταῦτα παρλίπωμεν, τὸ ὑγιὲς συνημμένον ἀκατάληπτον εὑρεθήσεται. ὁ μὲν γὰρ Φίλων φησὶν
ὑγιὲς εἶναι συνημμένον τὸ μὴ ἀρχόμενον ἀπὸ ἀληθοῦς καὶ λῆγον ἐπὶ ψεῦδος, οἷον ἡμέρας οὔσης καὶ ἐμοῦ διαλεγομένου τὸ ‘εἰ ἡμέρα ἐστιν, ἐγὼ διαλέγομαι', ὁ δὲ Διόδωρος, ὃ μήτε ἐνεδέχετο μήτε ἐνδέχεται ἀρχόμενον
ἀπὸ ἀληθοῦς λήγειν ἐπὶ ψεῦδος· καθ’ ὃν τὸ μὲν εἰρημένον συνημμένον ψεῦδος εἶναι δοκεῖ, ἐπεὶ ἡμέρας μὲν οὔσης ἐμοῦ δὲ σιωπήσαντος ἀπὸ ἀληθοῦς ἀρξάμενον ἐπὶ ψεῦδος καταλήξει,

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.) — 2.11.110 focus

[110] But passing over this objection, it will be found that the valid hypothetical syllogism is non-apprehensible. For Philo¹ says that a valid hypothetical syllogism is ‟that which does not begin with a truth and end with a falsehood,” as for instance the syllogism ‟If it is day, I converse,” when in fact it is day and I am conversing; but Diodorus² defines it as ‟that which neither was nor is capable of beginning with a truth and ending with a falsehood;” so that according to him the syllogism now mentioned seems to be false, since if it is in fact day but I have remained silent it will begin with a truth but end with a falsehood, whereas the syllogism

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