Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 2.5.23

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[23] ὁ μὲν γὰρ Δημόκριτός
(B 165 Diels) φησιν ὅτι ἄνθρωπός ἐστιν ὃ πάντες ἴσμεν. ὅσον δ’ ἐπὶ τούτῳ οὐ γνωσόμεθα τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ἐπεὶ καὶ κύνα ἴσμεν, καὶ παρὰ τοῦτο ἔσται καὶ ὁ κύων ἄνθρωπος. τινάς τε ἀνθρώπους οὐκ ἴσμεν· διὸ οὐκ ἔσονται ἄνθρωποι. μᾶλλον δέ, ὅσον ἐπὶ τῇ ἐννοίᾳ ταύτῃ, οὐδεὶς ¹² 61 ἔσται ἄνθρωπος· εἰ γὰρ ἐκεῖνος μέν φησι δεῖν ὑπὸ πάντων γινώσκεσθαι
τὸν ἄνθρωπον, οὐδένα δὲ ἄνθρωπον ἴσασι πάντες ἄνθρωποι, ἔσται κατ’ αὐτὸν ἄνθρωπος.

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.) — 2.5.23 focus

[23] Thus Democritus¹ declares that ‟Man is that which we all know.” Then, so far as his opinion goes, we shall not know Man, since we also know a dog, and consequently Dog too will be Man. And some men we do not know, therefore they will not be men. Or rather, if we are to judge by this concept, no one will be a man; for since Democritus says that Man must be known by all, and all men know no one man, no one, according to him, will be a man.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. §§ 22—28 ~ adv. dogm. I

2. 1 ἄπορον Kayser 2 nohis eicientibus T 9 εἰδικῶς Gen.: ἰδικῶς G: specialiter Τ 15 ἐμμέθ.: artificialis Τ 19 ὑπὸ Τ a[d] dogmaticis): ἀπὸ G 20 ἀκούωμεν L || γοῦν τοῦ LEAB: γὰρ τοῦτο M 26 ἴσμεν G: ἴδμεν p. 248,26.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.5.23

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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