Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 2.14.196

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[196] ὅταν οὖν ¹ ἀπόδειξιν G: αὐτὴν Τ (non magis ipsam esse quam) 32 λεγομένων MA 33 ἡμῶν MEABT (contradicentibus nohis) : ἡμῖν L 5 licet Τ (ἔνεστ?) 8 λέγω T (dico) 10 ἔχοντες M sed spat. 8 lit. rel. 12/13 σωκράτην EAB: σωκράτη ML 102 λέγωσι ‘πᾶς ἄνθρωπος ζῷον, Σωκράτης δ’ ἄνθρωπος, Σωκράτης ἄρα ζῷον’, ἐκ τῆς καθόλου προτάσεως τῆς ‘πᾶς ἄνθρωπος ζῷον’ τὴν κατὰ μέρος πρότασιν συνάγειν βουλόμενοιμ, τὴν ‘Σωκράτης ἄρα ζῷον’, ἣ δὴ βεβαιωτικὴ τῆς καθολικῆς προτάσεως ἐστι κατὰ τὸν ἐπαγωγικὸν τρόπον,
ὡς ὑπεμνήσαμεν, εἰς τὸν διάλληλον ἐμπίπτουσι λόγον, τὴν μὲν καθολικὴν πρότασιν δι’ ἑκάστης τῶν κατὰ μέρος <......>

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.) — 2.14.196 focus

[196] So whenever they argue ‟Every man is an animal, and Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is an animal,” proposing to deduce from the universal proposition ‟Every man is an animal” the particular proposition ‟Socrates therefore is an animal,” which in fact goes (as we have mentioned) to establish by way of induction the universal proposition, they fall into the error of circular reasoning, since they are establishing the universal proposition inductively by means of each of the particulars and deducing the particular proposition from the universal syllogistically.

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