Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.13.165

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[165] συνερωτήσει. εἰ δὲ ἕπεται τῷ ἄνθρωπον εἷναι τὸ καὶ ζῷον αὐτὸν ὑπάρχειν, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἀληθής ἐστιν ὁμολογουμένως ἡ ‘πᾶς ἄνθρωπος ζῷον' πρότασις, ἅμα τῷ λεχθῆναι ὅτι Σωκράτης ἄνθρωπος συνεισάγεται καὶ τὸ ζῷον
αὐτὸν εἷναι, ὧς ἀρκεῖν τὴν τοιαύτην συνερώτησιν ‘Σωκράτης ἄνθρωπος, Σωκράτης ἄρα ζῷον,’ καὶ παρέλκειν τὴν ‘πᾶς ἄνθρωπος ζῷον' πρότασιν.

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.) — 2.13.165 focus

[165] But if the fact that he is a man is logically followed by the fact that he is also an animal, and in consequence the premiss ‟Every man is an animal” is by agreement true, at the moment of stating that ‟Socrates is a man” we admit therewith that he is also an animal, so that an argument in the form ‟Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is an animal” is sufficient, and the premiss ‟Every man is an animal” is redundant.

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