Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.22.243

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[243] οὐκ ἄρα κινεῖταί τι.’ ‘ἢτοι τὸ ὂν γίνεται ἢ
τὸ μὴ ὄν. τὸ μὲν οὖν ὂν οὐ γίνεται (ἔστι γάρ)· ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ τὸ μὴ ὄν· (τὸ μὲν γὰρ γινόμενον πάσχει τι, τὸ δὲ μὴ ὂν οὐ πάσχει) οὐδὲν ἄρα γίνεται.

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.) — 2.22.243 focus

[243] ‟Either the existent becomes or the non-existent; now the existent does not become (for it exists); nor yet does the non-existent (for the becoming is passive but the non-existent is not passive); therefore nothing becomes.”¹

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