Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 2.13.160

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[160] ὁμοίως δὲ φερόμεθα καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ δευτέρου ἀναποδείκτου. ἤτοι γὰρ ἐνδέχεται τοῦ λήγοντος μὴ ὄντος εἶναι τὸ ἡγούμενον, ἢ οὐκ ἐνδέχεται. ἀλλ’ εἰ μὲν ἐνδέχεται, οὐκ ἔσται ὑγιὲς τὸ συνημμένον· εἰ δὲ οὐκ ἐνδέχεται, ἅμα τῷ τεθῆναι τὸ ‘οὐχὶ τὸ λῆγον' τίθεται καὶ τὸ ‘οὐχὶ τὸ ἡγούμενον', καὶ παρέλκει πάλιν τὸ συνημμένον, τῆς συνερωτήσεως τοιαύτης γινομένης ‘οὐχὶ ¹² 93 φῶς ἔστιν, οὐκ ἄρα ὅτι] ἡμέρα ἔστιν'.

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.) — 2.13.160 focus

[160] And in the case of the second non-demonstrable argument we make a similar objection. For it is either possible or impossible for the antecedent to be true when the consequent is not true. But if this is possible, the major premiss will not be valid; while if it is impossible, at the moment of positing ‟Not the consequent” we posit also ‟Not the antecedent,” and the major premiss is redundant once again, the argument propounded being ‟It is not light, therefore it is not day.”

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. § 159 cf. ’ξ 156. adv. dogm. II 440.

2. 2 ἐκ συνημμένου T ψ coniuncto): ἐκ κινουμένου G 4 εἰ om. L 6 ἐν tfj συμπλοκῇ p. 94, 2 et 336, 19 14 ἄρα om. L
αὐτῷ deL Kayser 22 ἔσται Τ (erit): ἔστι G 27 ἀναποδείκτου <λόγου> T (in secunda indemonstrativa ratione)

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.13.160

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