Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.11.120

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[120] ἀδύνατον
δὲ ἐννοῆσαι πρᾶγμα μὴ δυνάμενον πρὸ ἐκείνου γνωσθῆναι, οὗ προκαταλαμβάνεσθαι ἀνάγκην ἔχει· ἀδύνατον ἄρα ἐπινοεῖν τι καὶ πρός τι ὂν καὶ ἐκκαλυπτικὸν ἐκείνου ὑπάρχον πρὸς ᾧ νοεῖται. τὸ δὲ σημεῖον καὶ πρός τι φασὶν
εἶναι καὶ ἐκκαλυπτικὸν τοῦ σημειωτοῦ· ἀδύνατον ἄρα ἐστὶν ἐπινοῆσαι τὸ σημεῖον.

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.) — 2.11.120 focus

[120] But it is impossible to form a conception of an object which cannot be known before the thing before which it must necessarily be apprehended; and so it is impossible to conceive of an object which is both relative and also really serves to reveal the thing in relation to which it is thought. But the sign is, as they affirm, both relative and serving to reveal the thing signified; wherefore it is impossible to conceive of the sign.

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