Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 2.22.252

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[252] ὥσπερ γὰρ εἰ ὁδὸς ¹ 117 εἴη ἐπί τινα κρημνὸν φέρουσα, οὐκ ὠθοῦμεν αὑτοὺς εἰς τὸν κρημνὸν διὰ τὸ ὁδόν τινα εἷναι φέρουσαν ἐπ’ αὐτόν, ἀλλ’ ἀφιστάμεθα τῆς ὁδοῦ διὰ τὸν κρημνόν, οὕτω καὶ εἰ λόγος εἴη ἐπί τι ὁμολογουμένως ἄτοπον ἡμᾶς ἀπάγων, οὐχὶ τῷ ἀτόπῳ συγκαταθησόμεθα διὰ τὸν λόγον, ἀλλ’
ἀποστησόμεθα τοῦ λόγου διὰ τὴν ἀτοπίαν.

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.) — 2.22.252 focus

[252] Thus, suppose there were a road leading up to a chasm, we do not push ourselves into the chasm just because there is a road leading to it but we avoid the road because of the chasm; so, in the same way, if there should be an argument which leads us to a confessedly absurd conclusion, we shall not assent to the absurdity just because of the argument but avoid the argument because of the absurdity.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. 15 αὐτοῦ om. T 22 ἢ μὴ μήτε T (nec) 27 περὶ T (circa) 31 μὲν MLT (quidem) : μὴ EAB 32 φασιν Gr: quod autem T ἐπειδὴ δὲ?) 1 ἀπάγειν τὸ σόφισμά φασιν ἀλλὰ καἰ scripsi sec. T (in falsum deducit sophisma dicunt quidem etiam) : ἀπάγειν τοῖς σοφίσμασιν ἀλλὰ καὶ G

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.22.252

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