Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 2.16.212

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[212] εἲτ’ οὖν λόγος εἷναι λέγοιτο διὰ βραχείας ὑπομνήσεως εἰς ἔννοιαν ἡμᾶς ἄγων τῶν ὑποτεταγμένων ταῖς φωναῖς πραγμάτων, ὡς δῆλόν γε (οὐ γάρ;) ἐκ τῶν μικρῷ
πρόσθεν ἡμῖν εἰρημένων, εἴτε λόγος ὁ τὸ τί ἦν εἷναι δηλῶν, εἴτε ὃ βούλεταί τις. καὶ γὰρ τί ἐστιν ὁ ὅρος βουλόμενοι παριστᾶν εἰς ἀνήνυτον ἐμπίπτουσι διαφωνίαν, ἣν διὰ τὴν προαίρεσιν τῆς γραφῆς παρίημι νῦν, εἴγε καὶ δοκεῖ διατρέπειν τούς ὅρους <ὅσα ἐν τούτοις περὶ τοῦ ἄχρηστον ¹ εἶναι τὸν ὅρον ἐλέγομεν>. Τοσαῦτα μὲν καὶ περὶ ὅρων ἀπόχρη
μοι νῦν λελέχθαι.

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.) — 2.16.212 focus

[212] whether it be described as ‟a statement which by a brief reminder brings us to a conception of the objects which underlie the terms,”—as is plain (is it not?) from what we have said just a moment ago,—or as ‟a statement declaratory of the essence,”¹ or what you like. For in fact, in their desire to propound a definition of the definition they plunge into an endless controversy which I now pass over, because of the plan of my present treatise, although it seems to overthrow definitions.

So what I have said about definitions is enough for the present.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

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