Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.11.119

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[119] ὅθεν εἰ μὲν πρός τι ἐστὶ καὶ πρὸς τῷ σημειωτῷ, συγκαταλαμβάνεσθαι πάντως ὀφείλει τῷ σημειωτῷ, καθάπερ τὸ ἀριστερὸν τῷ δεξιῷ
καὶ τὸ ἄνω τῷ κάτω καὶ τὰ ἄλλα <τὰ> πρός τι. εἰ δὲ ἐστι τοῦ σημειωτοῦ, προκαταλαμβάνεσθαι αὐτοῦ πάντως ὀφείλει, ἵνα προεπιγνωσθὲν εἰς ἔννοιαν ἡμᾶς ἀγάγῃ τοῦ ἐξ αὐτοῦ γινωσκομένου πράγματος.

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.) — 2.11.119 focus

[119] Accordingly, if it is relative and in relation to the thing signified it certainly ought to be apprehended along with the thing signified, as is ‟left” with ‟right,” ‟up” with ‟down,” and the rest of the relative terms. Whereas, if it serves to reveal the thing signified, it certainly ought to be apprehended before it, in order that by being foreknown it may lead us to a conception of the object which comes to be known by means of it.

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