Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.16.208

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[208] οὐδὲν ὁρισόμεθα διὰ τὴν εἰς ἄπειρον ἔκπτωσιν] ἢ οὐκ ἀναγκαίους τοὺς ὄρους ἀποφανοῦμεν. διὰ δὲ ταῦτα οὐδὲ πρὸς διδασκαλίαν αὐτοὺς εὕροιμεν ἂν ἀναγκαίους· ὧς γὰρ ὁ πρῶτος τὸ
πρᾶγμα γνούς ἔγνω τοῦτο χωρὶς ὅρου, κατὰ τὸ παραπλἠσιον καὶ ὁ διδασκόμενος αὐτὸ δύναται χωρὶς ὅρου διδαχθῆναι.

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.) — 2.16.208 focus

[208] —then we shall either define absolutely nothing or we shall declare that definitions are not necessary.

And for these reasons they are not necessary for instruction either, as we shall discover. For just as the man who first perceived the object perceived it apart from definition, so likewise the man who receives instruction about it can be instructed without definition.

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