Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.14.197

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[197] ἐκ τῆς καθολικῆς συλλογιστικῶς. παραπλησίως δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ τοιούτου λόγου ‘Σωκράτης ἄνθρωπος, οὐδεὶς δὲ ἂνθρωπος τετράπους, Σωκράτης ἄρα οὔκ ἐστι τετράπους’
τὴν μὲν ‘οὐδεὶς ἄνθρωπος τετράπους’ πρότασιν ἐκ τῶν κατὰ μέρος ἐπαγωγικῶς βουλόμενοι βεβαιοῦν, ἑκάστην δὲ τῶν κατὰ μέρος ἐκ τῆς ‘οὐδεὶς ἄνθρωπος τετράπους’ συλ- λογίζεσθαι θέλοντες, τῇ κατὰ τὸν διάλληλον ἀπορίᾳ περιπίπτουσι.

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.) — 2.14.197 focus

[197] So likewise in the case of such an argument as ‟Socrates is a man, but no man is four-footed, therefore Socrates is not four- footed,” by proposing to establish the premiss ‟No man is four-footed” by induction from the particular instances while wishing to deduce each several particular from the premiss ‟No man is four-footed,” they become involved in the perplexity of the circular fallacy.

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