Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.22.254

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[254] καὶ ἡμεῖς μὲν ἀδοξάστως ἀπὸ τῆς
βιωτικῆς τηρήσεως ὁρμώμενοι τοὺς ἀπατηλοὺς οὕτος ἐκκλίνομεν λόγους, οἱ δογματικοὶ δὲ ἀδυνάτως ἕξουσι διακρῖναι τὸ σόφισμα ἀπὸ τοῦ δεόντως δοκοῦντος ἐρωτᾶσθαι λόγου, εἲγε χρὴ δογματικῶς αὐτούς ἐπικρῖναι, καὶ ὅτι συνακτικόν ἐστι τὸ σχῆμα τοῦ λόγου καὶ ὅτι τὰ λήμματά
ἐστιν ἀληθῆ ἤ οὐχ οὕτως ἔχει·

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.) — 2.22.254 focus

[254] And whereas we, by starting undogmatically from the observation of practical life, thus avoid these fallacious arguments, the Dogmatists will not be in a position to distinguish the Sophism from the argument which seems to be correctly propounded, seeing that they have to pronounce dogmatically that the form of the argument is, or is not, logically sound and also that the premisses are, or are not, true.

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