Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 2.11.113

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[113] αὐτὸ γάρ τι ἐν ἑαυτῷ περιέχεσθαι ἀμήχανον. ταύτην τοίνυν τὴν διαφωνίαν ἐπικριθῆναι ἀμήχανον ἴσως εἶναι δόξει. οὔτε γὰρ ἀναποδείκτως προκρίνοντές τινα τῶν στάσεων τῶν
προειρημένων πιστοὶ ἐσόμεθα οὔτε μετὰ ἀποδείξεως. καὶ γὰρ ἡ ἀπόδειξις ὑγιὴς εἶναι δοκεῖ, ὅταν ἀκολουθῇ τῇ διὰ ¹² τῶν λημμάτων αὐτῆς συμπλοκῇ τὸ συμπέρασμα αὐτῆς ὡς λῆγον ἡγουμένῳ, οἷον οὕτως ‘εἰ ἡμέρα ἔστιν, φῶς ἔστιν·
ἀλλὰ μὴν ἡμέρα ἔστιν· φῶς ἄρα ἔστιν. εἴπερ ἡμέρα ἔστι, φῶς ἔστιν· καὶ ἡμέρα ἔστι καὶ φῶς 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.) — 2.11.113 focus

[113] Probably, then, it will not seem feasible to get this controversy resolved. For whether we prefer any one of the above-mentioned rival views without proof or by the aid of proof, in neither case shall we gain credence. For proof itself is held to be valid whenever its conclusion follows the combination of its premisses as the consequent follows the antecedent; thus, for example—‟If it is day it is light; but in fact it is day; therefore it is light:” ‟If it is day it is light,” ‟it is day and also it is light.”¹

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. § 110 ~ adv. dogm. 11 113—117.

2. 28 οὐ συνυπάρξει EAB 31 μὴ secl. Kayser 10 συνάγοντες L 12 predicta T 17 τὸ om. edd. || διαφορούμενον MEAB: διφορόμενον (eras. ἁ) L: onine quod diversificatur Τ || ἀξίωμα del. Bekk. 19 post ἴσως add. ἂν L 20 opinionum T φάσεων, quod iam coni. Gen.)

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.11.113

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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