Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 2.11.118

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[118] εἰ δ’ οὐ προκαταλαμβάνεται τὸ σημεῖον τοῦ σημειωτοῦ, οὐδὲ ἐκκαλυπτικὸν ¹² αὐτοῦ δύναται ὑπάρχειν τοῦ ἅμα αὐτῷ καὶ μὴ μετ’ αὐτὸ καταλαμβανομένου. οὐκοῦν καὶ ὅσον ἐπὶ τοῖς κοινότερον λεγομένοις
ὑπὸ τῶν ἑτεροδόξων ἀνεπινόητόν ἐστι τὸ σημεῖον. καὶ γὰρ πρός τι καὶ ἐκκαλυπτικὸν τοῦ σημειωτοῦ, πρὸς ᾧ φασιν αὐτὸ εἶναι, τοῦτο εἷναι λέγουσιν.

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.) — 2.11.118 focus

[118] And if the sign is not apprehended before the thing signified, neither can it really serve to reveal the actual thing which is apprehended along with itself and not after itself.

Thus also, so far as we may judge by the usual statements of the dissenting philosophers (the Stoics), the sign is inconceivable. For they assert that it is both relative and serving to reveal the thing signified, in relation to which they say it was.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. §§ 117—118 (=119—120) ~ adv. dogm. II 165.

2. 26 καὶ ἡμέρα — ἔστιν om. T 27 περὶ τοῦ om. Τ (quesito autem quomodo) cf. p. 84, 16 8 ἐκκαλύψαντος L 9 ἔσται T (erit) cf. V. 13: ἔστιν G || σημειωτικόν A 22 ὧς σημειωτοῦ ML ex corr. signum ante signatum tamquam signati T: om. EAB, fortasse scrib. ὧς <σημεῖον> σημειωτοῦ coll. v. 19.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.11.118

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