Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 2.14.198

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[198] ὁμοίως δὲ ἐφοδευτέον καὶ τοὺς λοιποὺς τῶν παρὰ τοῖς Περιπατητικοῖς λεγομένων ἀναποδείκτων. ἀλλὰ καὶ τούς τοιούτους ‘εἰ ἡμέρα ἔστι, φῶς ἒστον’. τό τε γὰρ ‘εἰ ἡμέρα ἔστι, φῶς ἒστι’ συνακτικόν ἐστιν, ὡς φασί, τοῦ
‘φῶς ἒστι’, τό τε ‘φῶς ἐστι’ μετὰ τοῦ ‘ἡμέρα ἔστι βεαιωτικόν ἐστι τοῦ ‘εἰ ἡμέρα ἔστι, φῶς ἒστιν’. οὐ γὰρ ἂν ὑγιὲς ἐνομίσθη τὸ προειρημένον συνημμένον εἶναι, εἰ μὴ πρότερον τεθεώρητο συνυπάρχον ἀεὶ τὸ ‘φῶς ἒστι’ τῷ ‘ἡμέρα ἒστιν’.

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.) — 2.14.198 focus

[198] And a similar criticism may be passed upon the rest of the ‟axiomatic” arguments, as they are called by the Peripatetics; and also upon arguments in the form ‟If it is day, it is light.” For the proposition ‟If it is day, it is light ” is capable, they say, of proving that ‟it is light,” and the clause ‟it is light” in conjunction with ‟it is day” serves to establish the proposition ‟If it is day, it is light.” For the hypothetical premiss stated above would not have been considered valid unless the constant co- existence of ‟it is light” with ‟it is day” had already been observed.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.14.198

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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