Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 2.22.244

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[244] ἡ χιὼν ὕδωρ ἐστὶ πεπηγός· μέλαν δὲ τὸ ὕδωρ ἐστίν. μέλαινα ἄρα ἐστὶν ἡ χιών.’ καὶ τοιούτους ἀθροίσας
ὕθλους συνάγει τὰς ὀφρῦς, καὶ προχειρίζεται τὴν διαλεκτικήν, καὶ πάνυ σεμνῶς ἐπιχειρεῖ κατ’ κατασκευάζειν ἡμῖν δι’ ἀποδείξεων συλλογιστικῶν, ὅτι γίνεταί τι, καὶ ὅτι κινεῖταί τι, καὶ ὅτι ἡ χιών ἐστι λευκή, καὶ ὅτι κέρατα οὐκ ἔχομεν,
καίτοι γε ἀρκοῦντος ἴσως τοῦ τὴν ἐνάργειαν αὐτοῖς ἀντιτιθέναι τιθέναι πρὸς τὸ θραύεσθαι τὴν διαβεβαιωτικὴν θέσιν διὰ τῆς ἐκ τῶν φαινομένων ἰσοσθενοῦς αὐτῶν ἀντιμαρτυρήσεως. ταῦτά τοι καὶ ἐρωτηθεὶς φιλόσοφος <τις> κατὰ τῆς κινήσεως λόγον σιωπῶν περιπάτησεν, καὶ οἱ
κατὰ τὸν βίον ἄνθρωποι πεζάς τε καὶ διαποντίους στέλλονται πορείας κατασκευάζουσί τε ναῦς καὶ οἰκίας καὶ παισοποιοῦνται τῶν κατὰ τῆς κινήσεως καὶ γενέσεως ἀμελοῦντες ¹ 115 λόγων.

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.) — 2.22.244 focus

[244] ‟Snow is frozen water; but water is black; therefore snow is black.”¹

And when he has made a collection of such trash he draws his eyebrows together, and expounds Dialectic and endeavours very solemnly to establish for us by syllogistic proofs that a thing becomes, a thing moves, snow is white, and we do not have horns, although it is probably sufficient to confront the trash with the plain fact in order to smash up their positive affirmation by means of the equipollent contradictory evidence derived from appearances. Thus, in fact, a certain philosopher,² when the argument against motion was put to him, without a word started to walk about; and people who follow the usual way of life proceed on journeys by land and sea and build ships and houses and beget children without paying any attention to the arguments against motion and becoming.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. 20 προσεχές Τ 20/21 τὸ ψυχρὸν <ψυχρὸν τὸ> κατ. εἷναι δοκεῖν αὐτὴ Pappenheim 23 ἐρωτήσεις EAB || ἡμᾶς T (interrogans autem nos) : ἡμῖν G 24/25 et 25/26 καὶ κέρατα ἔχεις del. E. Weber 28 μενεῖ Kayser || μένει γὰρ <ἐν εἴπερ ἐν αὐτῷ ἐστιν> E. Weber coll. p. 137,26 || δὲ om. ὁ ἐνάργειαν Fabr.: ἐνέργειαν G: ad manifestam T 7 αὐτῶν alt. EAB: αὐτοῦ L: αὐ(??) Μ: eis Τ 8 τις add. T (quidam phil.) cf. p. 136, 25. || ad φίλ’. rubr. in L add. in mrg. ὁ ἀντισθένης
κατὰ om. T (rationem motus) 12 κατὰ G: de T

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.22.244

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