Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 2.11.131

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[131] εἰ δὲ σημαίνουσί τι, ἔστι σημεῖον. ἔτι ἤτοι ἀποδεικτικοί εἰσιν οἱ λόγοι οἱ κατὰ τοῦ σημείου ἢ οὐκ ἀποδεικτικοί.
ἀλλ’ εἰ μὲν οὐκ ἀποδεικτικοί, οὐκ ἀποδεικνύουσι τὸ μὴ εἶναι σημεῖον· εἰ δὲ ἀποδεικτικοί, ἐπεὶ ἡ ἀπόδειξις τῷ γένει σημεῖόν ἐστιν, ἐκκαλυπτικὴ οὖσα τοῦ συμπεράσματος, ¹²³ ἔσται σημεῖον. ὅθεν καὶ συνερωτᾶται λόγος τοιοῦτος· εἰ ἐστι τι σημεῖον, ἔστι σημεῖον, καὶ εἰ μὴ ἔστι σημεῖον, ἔστι σημεῖον· τὸ γὰρ μὴ εἶναι σημεῖον δι’ ἀποδείξεως, ἣ δή ἐστι σημεῖον, δείκνυται. ἤτοι δὲ ἔστι σημεῖον ἢ οὐκ ἔστι σημεῖον· ἔστιν ἄρα 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.) — 2.11.131 focus

[131] Further, the arguments against the sign are either probative or non-probative; but if they are non-probative they do not prove the non- existence of a sign; while if they are probative, since proof, as serving to reveal the conclusion, belongs to the genus sign, sign will exist. Whence this argument also is propounded: ‟If sign exists, sign exists; and if sign exists not, sign exists; for the non- existence of sign is shown by proof, which is a form of sign. But sign either exists or exists not; therefore sign exists.”

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. § 130 ~ adv. dogm. II 279.

2. § 131 –v. 24 σημεῖον) ἴον) ~ adv. dogm. II 277—278

3. 31 αὐτά om. Τ 32 λέγηται G: videntur T 5 φαινόμενον T (manifesta): φαίνεται Gr 6 ὑποτιθέντα L 12 ἀρκέσειν EB 13 μὴ — 14 τοῦ om. EAB 15 ἀντικειμένων om. T

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.11.131

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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