Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 2.11.122

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[122] ἐπεὶ γὰρ ἡ ἀπόδειξις τῷ γένει σημεῖον εἶναι λέγεται, ἀμφισβητουμένου
τοῦ πότερον ἔστι τι σημεῖον ἢ οὐκ ἔστιν, ἀμφισβήτησις ἔσται καὶ περὶ τοῦ πότερον ἔστιν ἀπόδειξις ἢ οὐδαμῶς, ὥσπερ καθ’ ὑπόθεσιν ζητουμένου εἰ ἔστι ζῷον, ζητεῖται καὶ περὶ τοῦ εἰ ἔστιν ἄνθρωπος· ζῷον γὰρ ὁ ἄνθρωπος. ἄτοπον δὲ τὸ ζητούμενον διὰ τοῦ ἐπ’ ἴσης ζητουμένου
ἢ δι’ ἑαυτοῦ ἀποδεικνύναι· οὐδὲ δι’ ἀποδείξεως ἄρα δυνήσεταί τις διαβεβαιοῦσθαι, ὅτι ἔστι 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.) — 2.11.122 focus

[122] For since proof is stated to come under the genus sign,¹ seeing that it is disputed whether or not a sign exists, there will also be a dispute as to whether proof does or does not at all exist—just as, when we make, let us suppose, the inquiry ‟Does animal exist?” we are inquiring also ‟Does man exist?” But it is absurd to try to prove the matter in question either by means of what is equally in question or by means of itself. So that neither will one be able by means of proof to affirm positively that sign exists.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.11.122

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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