Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.11.115

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[115] ἀκατάληπτον ἄρα τὸ ὑγιὲς συνημμένον. ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ προκαθηγούμενον ἄπορόν ἐστιν. τὸ μὲν γὰρ προκαθηγούμενον, ὥς φασιν, ἐστὶ τὸ ἡγούμενον ἐν τοιούτῳ
συνημμένῳ, ὅ ἄρχεται ἀπὸ ἀληθοῦς καὶ λήγει ἐπὶ ἀληθές.

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.) — 2.11.115 focus

[115] So then the valid hypothetical syllogism is non-apprehensible.

But the ‟antecedent” also is unintelligible. For the antecedent, as they assert, is ‟the leading clause in a hypothetical syllogism of the kind which begins with a truth and ends in a truth.”¹

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