Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 2.22.236

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[236] εἰς δὲ τὸν προκείμενον τόπον ἰδίως καὶ ἄλλα μὲν πολλὰ λέγειν ἔνεστιν, ὧς δὲ ἐν συντόμῳ νῦν τόδε λεκτέον. ὅσα μὲν σοφίσματα ἰδίως ἡ διαλεκτικὴ δύνασθαι δοκεῖ διελέγχειν, τούτων ἡ διάλυσις ἄχρηστός ἐστιν· ὅσων δὲ ἡ διάλυσις
χρησιμεύει, ταῦτα ὁ μὲν διαλεκτικὸς οὐκ ἂν δοαύἐπαγωγὴ ¹ σειεν, οἱ δὲ ἐν ἑκάστῃ τέχνῃ τὴν ἐπὶ τῶν πραγμάτων παρακολούθησιν ἐσχηκότες.

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.) — 2.22.236 focus

[236] And there are many other special objections bearing on the topic before us which we might mention, but now, for brevity’s sake, we mention only this one.

As regards all the sophisms which dialectic seems peculiarly able to expose, their exposure is useless; whereas in all cases where the exposure is useful, it is not the dialectician who will expose them but the experts in each particular art who grasp the connexion of the facts.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. 24 ἐπαγωγὴ Gen. 28 δὲ om. L 29 τῆς προσλήψεως om. EAB 29a γενομένης ML γινομένης EAB 30 προσλήψεως Bekk.: προλ. G: assumptionem T ut v. 29 5 τοὺς — 6 συνήθ. corrupta esse putat Pappeng., qui αὐτοὺς vel aliud desiderat
ἔνιοι MEABT (quidam) : ἔνθα L 5a ἐπάγεσθαι T (induci) : ἐπάγειν G 7 τινες om. T 9 οἰκειοτέρων L 14 δυωάμεως om. L

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.22.236

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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