Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.13.174

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[174] τὸ μὲν οὖν σύστημα τὸ ἐκ τῶν λημμάτων καὶ τῆς ἐπι- φορὰς οὔκ ἐστιν ἀπόδειξις, πρῶτον μὲν ὅτι μέρος τι ἔχουσα ἄδηλον, τουτέστι τὴν ἐπιφοράν, ἄδηλος ἔσται, ὅπερ ἄτοπον·
εἰ γὰρ ἄδηλός ἐστιν ἡ ἀπόδειξις, αὐτὴ δεήσεται τοῦ ἀποδείξοντος αὐτὴν μᾶλλον ἢ ἑτέρων ἔσται ἀποδεικτική.

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.) — 2.13.174 focus

[174] Now the system composed of the premisses and the inference is not proof because, firstly, it contains a non-evident part—that is to say, the inference—and so will be non-evident, which is absurd; for if the proof is non-evident, instead of serving to prove other things it will itself be in need of something to prove it.

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