Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 2.11.111

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[111] ἐκεῖνο δὲ ἀληθές ‘εἰ οὐκ
ἔστιν ἀμερῆ τῶν ὄντων στοιχεῖα, ἔστιν ἀμερῆ τῶν ὄντων στοιχεῖα’· ἀεὶ γὰρ ἀπὸ ψεύδους ἀρχόμενον τοῦ ‘οὐκ ἀμερῆ τῶν ὄντων στοιχεῖα’ εἰς ἀληθὲς καταλήξει αὐτὸν τὸ ‘ἔστιν ἀμερῆ τῶν ὄντων στοιχεῖα’. οἱ δὲ τὴν εἰσάγοντες ὑγιὲς εἶναί φασι συνημμένον, ὅταν
τὸ ἀντικείμενον τῷ ἐν αὐτῷ λήγοντι μάχηται τῷ ἐν αὐτῷ ἡγουμένῳ· καθ’ οὓς τὰ μὲν εἰρημένα συνημμένα ἔσται μοχθηρά, ἐκεῖνο δὲ ἀληθές ‘εἰ ἡμέρα ἔστιν, ἡμέρα ἔστιν’.

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.) — 2.11.111 focus

[111] ‟If atomic elements of things do not exist, atomic elements exist,” seems true, since it begins with the false clause ‟atomic elements do not exist” and will end, according to him, with the true clause ‟atomic elements exist.” And those who introduce ‟connexion,” or ‟coherence,”¹ assert that it is a valid hypothetical syllogism whenever the opposite of its consequent contradicts its antecedent clause; so that, according to them, the above-mentioned syllogisms are invalid, whereas the syllogism ‟If day exists, day exists” is true.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.11.111

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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