Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 2.11.117

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[117]
ἵνα δὲ καὶ ταῦτα παραλίπωμεν, οὐ δύναται ἐκκαλυπτικὸν εἶναι τοῦ λήγοντος, εἴγε πρὸς τὸ σημεῖόν ἐστι τὸ σημειωτὸν καὶ διὰ τοῦτο συγκαταλαμβάνεται αὐτῷ. τὰ γὰρ πρός τι ἀλλήλοις συγκαταλαμβάνεται· καὶ ὥσπερ τὸ δεξιὸν πρὸ τοῦ ἀριστεροῦ ὧς δεξιὸν ἀριστεροῦ καταληφθῆναι οὐ δύναται,
οὐδὲ ἀνάπαλιν, καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἄλλων τῶν πρός τι πα- ραπλησίως, οὕτως οὐδὲ τὸ σημεῖον πρὸ τοῦ σημειωτοῦ ὡς σημειωτοῦ καταληφθῆναι δυνατὸν ἔσται.

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.) — 2.11.117 focus

[117] But to pass over this objection also, the sign cannot serve to reveal the consequent, if the thing signified is relative to the sign and is, therefore, apprehended along with it. For relatives are apprehended along with each other; and just as ‟right” cannot be apprehended as ‟right of left” before ‟left,” nor vice versa—and the same holds good of all other relative terms,—so neither will it be possible for the sign, as ‟sign of signified,” to be apprehended before the thing signified.¹

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.11.117

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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