Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 2.13.188

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[188] δύνανται δὲ οἱ λόγοι, καθάπερ καὶ τὰ καθαρτικὰ φάρμακα ταῖς ἐν τῷ σώματι ὑποκειμέναις ὕλαις ἑαυτὰ συνεξάγει, οὕτω καὶ αὐτοὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις λόγοις τοῖς
ἀποδεικτικοῖς εἶναι λεγομένοις καὶ ἑαυτούς συμπεριγράφειν. τοῦτο γὰρ οὐκ ἔστιν ἀπεμφαῖνον, ἐπεὶ καὶ ἡ φωνὴ αὕτη ἡ ‘οὐδέν ἐστιν ἀληθές’ οὐ μόνον τῶν ἄλλων ἕκαστον ἀλλὰ καὶ ἑαυτὴν ἐκείνοις συμπεριτρέπει. ὅ τε λύγος οὗτος δύναται δείκνυσθαι ἀσύνακτος ‘εἰ ἔστιν ἀπόδειξις,
ἔστιν ἀπόδειξις· εἰ οὐκ ἔστιν ἀπόδειξις, ἐστιν ἀπόδειξις· ἤτοι δὲ ἔστιν ἢ οὐκ ἔστιν· ἔστιν ἄρα', καὶ διά πλειόνων μέν, ὧς δὲ πρὸς τὸ παρὸν ἀρκούντως διὰ τοῦδε τοῦ ἐπι- ¹²³⁴ 100 χειρήματος.

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.) — 2.13.188 focus

[188] And just as purgative medicines expel themselves together with the substances already present in the body, so these arguments are capable of cancelling themselves along with the other arguments which are said to be probative.¹ Nor is this preposterous, since in fact the saying ‟nothing is true” not only refutes every other saying but also nullifies itself as well.

And as regards this argument—‟If proof exists, proof exists; if proof does not exist, proof exists; but it either exists or exists not; therefore it exists” —there are a number of ways by which it can be shown to be inconclusive, but for the moment the following method may suffice.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. § 186 ~ adv. dogm. II 466—469.

2. § 187 ~ adv. dogm. II 473—478.

3. § 188 ou adv. dogm. II 480.

4. 11 ἀληθὲς Sidd Gen. 12 καθάπερ καὶ Bcriipsi: καὶ καθάπερ MLEB; καθάπερ AT 16 τοῦτο δὲ T (hoc autem)

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.13.188

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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