Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 2.16.210

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[210] τάχα δὲ καὶ
ἀνεπίκριτοί εἰσιν οἱ ὅροι διὰ τὴν ἀπειρίαν τῶν κατὰ μέρος, ἐξ ὧν ἐπικρίνεσθαι ὀφείλουσιν· εἶτα οὐκ ἂν καταληπτικοί τε καὶ διδακτικοὶ τούτων εἶεν ἐξ ὧν ἐπικρίνονται δηλονότι προεπεγνωσμένων, εἴγε ἄρα, καὶ προκατειλημμένων
πῶς δὲ οὐκ ἂν εἴη γελοῖον τὸ λέγειν ὧς οἱ ὅροι χρησιμεύουσι πρὸς λατάξψομ ἢ διδασκαλίαν ἢ σαφήνειαν ὅλως, ἀσάφειαν ἡμῖν ἐπεισκυκλοῦντες τοσαύτην;

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.) — 2.16.210 focus

[210] And it may be also that the definitions do not admit of judgement owing to the infinity of the particulars by which they ought to be judged; and consequently they will not convey apprehension and instruction regarding the objects whereby they are judged, which evidently have been known beforehand, if at all, and apprehended beforehand.

And how could it be other than absurd to assert that definitions are of use for apprehension or instruction or elucidation of any kind, when they involve us in such a fog of uncertainty?

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.16.210

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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