Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 2.20.225

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[225] εἰ δὲ τὰ ἕτερα μόνα ἐστί, τούτων τὸ γέαὐτὰ ¹ 110 νος τῶν λοιπῶν οὐκ ἔσται γένος, οἷον εἰ σῶμα τὸ τὶ, τῶν ἀσωμάτων, καὶ εἰ λογικὸν τὸ ζῷον, τῶν ἀλόγων, ὡς μήτε ἀσώματόν τι εἶναι ζῷον μήτε ἂλογον, καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἄλλων
ὁμοίως· ὅπερ ἄτοπον. οὐκοῦν οὔτε καὶ τοῖον καὶ τοῖον τὸ γένος, οὔτε τοῖον μὲν τοῖον δὲ οὔ, οὔτε μὴν οὔτε τοῖον οὔτε τοῖον δύναται εἶναι [γένος]· εἰ δὲ τοῦτο, οὐδὲ ἔστιν ὅλως τὸ γένος. εἰ δὲ λέγοι τις ὅτι δυνάμει πάντα ἐστὶ τὸ γένος, λέξομεν, ὧς τὸ δυνάμει τι ὂν δεῖ τι καὶ ἐνεργείᾳ
εἰναι, οἷον οὐ δύναταί τις γραμματικὸς εἶναι εἰ μὴ καὶ ἐνεργείᾳ. καὶ τὸ γένος οὖν εἰ δυνάμει πάντα ἐστίν, ἐρωτῶμεν αὐτοὺς τί ἐστιν ἐνεργείᾳ, καὶ οὕτω μένουσιν αἱ αὐταὶ ἀπορίαι. τἀναντία μὲν γὰρ πάντα ἐνεργείᾳ εἶναι οὐ δύναται.

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.) — 2.20.225 focus

[225] But if the genus is some of them only, the genus of these will not be the genus of the rest; if, for instance, the genus ‟something” is corporeal it will not be that of the incorporeal, and if the genus ‟animal” is rational it will not be that of the irrational, so that there is neither an incorporeal ‟something” nor an irrational animal, and so likewise with all other cases; and this is absurd. Therefore the genus cannot be either of both this and that kind, or of this kind but not of that, or of neither this kind nor that; and if this be so, neither does the genus exist at all.

And if one should say that the genus is potentially all things,¹ we shall reply that what is potentially something must also be actually something, as, for instance, no one can be potentially literary without being so actually. So too, if the genus is potentially all things, what, we ask them, is it actually? And thus we find that the same difficulties remain. For it cannot actually be all the contraries;

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. 7 T (et ipsa) 8 αὐτῶν T (eorum considerantur) 8 οὐ γὰρ — d λέγεται om. T 19/20 τῶν τινῶν G: quorundam T τινῶν?) 25 ἔχοι AB 26 τῷ MET (cum eo quod): τὸ LAB 28 δεήσει δὲ T (oportet autem)

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