Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 2.12.135

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[135] εἰ δὲ δεῖ καὶ ἰδίως περὶ ἀποδείξεως εἰπεῖν, συντόμως ἐπελεύ- ¹²³ σομαι τὸν περὶ αὐτῆς λόγον, πρότερον σαφηνίσαι πειραθεὶς διὰ βραχέων, τί φασιν εἶναι τὴν ἀπόδειξιν.

Ἔστιν οὖν, ὡς φασίν, ἡ ἀπόδειξις λόγος δι’ ὁμολογουμένων λημμάτων κατὰ συναγωγὴν ἐπιφορὰν ἐκκαλύπτων ἄδηλον. σαφέστερον δὲ ὃ λέγου- σιν ἔσται διὰ τούτων. λόγος ἐστὶ σύστημα ἐκ λημμάτων καὶ ἐπιφορᾶς·

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.) — 2.12.135 focus

[135] If,however, one ought to devote a separate discussion to proof, I shall proceed to treat of it concisely after endeavouring first to explain shortly the definition they give of proof.

Proof is, as they assert, ‟an argument which, by means of agreed premisses, reveals by way of deduction a non-evident inference.” What their statement means will be made clearer by what follows. ‟An argument is a system composed of premisses and an inference.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. § 131 (inde a. v. 24 ὅθεν) ~ adv. dogm. II 281—282.

2. §§ 134—135 ~ adn. dogm. II 299.

3. 25 τι om. EAB 29 εἰ om. L 7 τι L: om. MEABT || μὴ add.Kayser 14 δὲ om. AT at cf. p. 32, 27. 17 κατὰ τὴν τῆς L 20/21 ingrediemur T

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.12.135

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