Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 2.11.123

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[123] εἰ δὲ μήτε ἁπλῶς μήτε μετὰ ἀποδείξεως οἷόν τέ ἐστι περὶ τοῦ ¹²³ 84 σημείου διαβεβαιωτικῶς ἀποφαίνεσθαι, ἀδύνατόν ἐστι περὶ
αὐτοῦ καταληπτικὴν ἀπόφασιν ποιήσασθαι· εἰ δὲ μὴ καταλαμβάνεται μετὰ ἀκριβείας τὸ σημεῖον, οὐδὲ σημαντικὸν εἶναι λεχθήσεταί τινος ἅτε δὴ μηδὲ αὐτὸ ὁμολογούμενον· διὰ δὲ τοῦτο οὐδὲ σημεῖον ἔσται. ὅθεν καὶ κατὰ τοῦτον τὸν ἐπιλογισμὸν ἀνύπαρκτον ἔσται τὸ σημεῖον καὶ
ἀνεπινόητον.

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.) — 2.11.123 focus

[123] And if it is not possible either simply or with the aid of proof to make a positive declaration about the sign, it is impossible to make an apprehensive affirmation¹ concerning it; and if the sign is not apprehended with exactness, neither will it be said to be significant of anything, inasmuch as there is no agreement even about itself; and because of this it will not even be a sign. Hence, according to this line of reasoning also, the sign will be unreal and inconceivable.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. §§ 119—120 ~ adm. dogm. II 165.

2. §§ 121— 122 ~ adv. dogm. II 179—181.

3. 31 τὰ suppl. e Τ (alia que sunt ad dliquid) 2 percognosciT (fort. ἐπιγνωσθῆναι cf. p. 83, 33). 4/5 ὑπάρχον om. Τ 18 quemadmodum enim Τ περὶ τοῦ om. T 21 οὐδὲ Bekk.: οὔτε GT (nec)

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.11.123

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