Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 2.13.157

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[157] Πολλοὺς μὲν <οὖν> ἀναποδείκτους ὀνειροπολοῦσιν (Stoic. fr. II 232 A), πέντε δὲ τούτους μάλιστα ἐκτίθενται, εἰς οὓς οἱ λοιποὶ πάντες ἀναφέρεσθαι δοκοῦσιν, πρῶτον <τὸν> ἐκ συνημμένου καὶ τοῦ τὸ λῆγον συνάγοντα, οἶον εἰ ἡμέρα ἔστι, φῶς ἔστιν· ἀλλὰ μὴν ἡμέρα ἔστιν· φῶς ἄρα ἔστιν'. δεύτε- ¹²³⁴ ρον τὸν ἐκ συνημμένου καὶ τοῦ ἀντικειμένου τὸ λήγοντος τὸ ἀντικείμενον τοῦ ἡγουμένου συνάγοντα, οἷον ‘εἰ ἡμέρα ἔστι, φῶς ἔστιν· οὐκ ἔστι δὲ φῶς·

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.) — 2.13.157 focus

[157] Now there are, in their imaginings, many non- demonstrable arguments, but the five which they chiefly propound, and to which all the rest can, it seems, be referred, are these. The first is that which deduces the consequent from the major premiss¹ and the antecedent, as for example ‟If it is day, it is light; but in fact it is day; therefore it is light.” The second is that which deduces the opposite of the antecedent from the major premiss and the opposite of the consequent, as for example ‟If it is day, it is light; but it is not light; therefore it is not day.”

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. § 155 ~ adv. dogm. II 446.

2. § 156 ~ adv. dogm. II 438—443.

3. §§ 157—158 V. 8 νύξ ἐστιν ~ dogm. II 224—226.

4. 12 δυνάμει — τούτων om. Μ sed relinqu. spat. 26 — 28 lit. (vide p. VIII) ΙΙ ἀντειρήκαμεν T {contradiximus) cf. p. 101, 32/3. 384,19: ἀντιρήσθω L: ἀντειρήσομεν EAB || τούτων T (per has): τοῦτο G 14 καὶ add. T 15 ἐλλιπὴς T (defectiva scil. ratio) cf p. 384,21: ἐλλείψει G ΙΙ ἔτι Bekk. Stephanum secutus: ὅτι GT (quia) 18 αὐτοῦ <ἐλλιποῦς> Pappenheim coll. v.
διὰ addidi, fort. τῷ (cf. Τ: in colligendo) 29 οὖν add.e Τ (quidem igitur, sicut p. 93, 15. 95, 19 e. a.) 31 τὸν add. Bekk.

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