Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.22.239

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[239] πάλιν τε ἐπί τινος πυρέσσοντος κατὰ πύκνωσιν ἐπιτεταμένην ἐρωτηθέντος τοῦ τοιούτου λόγου ‘τὰ ἐναντία τῶν ἐναντίων ἰάματά ἐστιν· ἐναντίον δὲ τῇ ὑποκειμένῃ πυρώσει
τὸ ψυχρόν· κατάλληλον ἄρα τῇ ὑποκειμένῃ πυρώσει τὸ ψυχρόν’ ὁ μὲν διαλεκτικὸς ἡσυχάσει, ὁ δὲ ἰατρός,

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.) — 2.22.239 focus

[239] Again, in the case of one who suffers from fever due to aggravated ‟contraction” or obstruction, if an argument is propounded in the form—‟Opposites are cures of opposites;¹ cold is the opposite of the present feverish condition; therefore cold is the treatment which corresponds to the present feverish condition,”—here again the dialectician will keep silence,

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