Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.11.114

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[114] ζητουμένου δὲ περὶ τοῦ πῶς κρινοῦμεν τὴν ἀκολουθίαν τοῦ λήγοντος πρὸς τὸ ἡγούμενον, ὁ διάλληλος εὑρίσκεται τρόπος. ἴνα μὲν γὰρ ἡ κρίσις τοῦ συνημμένου ἀποδειχθῇ τὸ συμπέρασμα
τοῖς λήμμασι τῆς ἀποδείξεως ἀκολουθεῖ, ὧς προειρήκαμεν· ἔνα δὲ πάλιν τοῦτο πιστευθῇ, δεῖ τὸ συνημμένον
καὶ τὴν ἀκολουθίαν ἐπικεκρίσθαι· ὅπερ ἄτοπον.

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.) — 2.11.114 focus

[114] But when we inquire how we are to judge the logical sequence of the consequent in its relation to the antecedent, we are met with the argument in a circle. For in order to prove the judgement upon the hypothetical syllogism, the conclusion of the proof must follow logically from its premisses, as we said above; and, in turn, in order to establish this, the hypothetical syllogism and its logical sequence must be tested; and this is absurd.

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