Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.12.143

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[143] ἡ οὖν ἀπόδειξις καὶ λόγος εἶναι ὀφείλει καὶ συνακτικὸς καὶ ἄλη θὴς καὶ ἄδηλον ἔχων συμπέρασμα καὶ] ἐκκαλυπτόμενον
ὑπὸ τῆς δυνάμεως τῶν λημμάτων, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο εἶναι λέγεται ἀπόδειξις λόγος δι’ ὁμολογουμένων λημμάτων κατὰ συναγωγὴν ἐπιφορὰν ἐκκαλύπτων ἄδηλον. διὰ τούτων μὲν οὖν σαφηνίζειν εἰώθασι τὴν ἔννοιαν τῆς ἀποδείξεως.

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.) — 2.12.143 focus

[143] So, then, proof ought to be an argument which is deductive and true and has a non-evident conclusion which is discovered by the potency of the premisses; and because of this, proof is defined as ‟an argument which by means of agreed premisses discovers by way of deduction a non-evident inference.” It is in these terms, then, that they are in the habit of explaining the conception of proof.

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