Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 2.5.30

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[30] καὶ ὅτι μὲν τὸ σῶμα οὐ καταλαμβάνεται, δῆλον ἐντεῦθεν· τὰ συμβεβηκότα τινὶ ἕτερά ἐστιν ἐκείνου ᾧ συμβέβηκεν.
ὅταν οὖν χρῶμα ἤ τι παραπλήσιον ἡμῖν ὑποπίπτῃ τὰ συμβεβηκότα τῷ σώματι εἰκὸς ἡμῖν ὑποπίπτειν, ἀλλ’ οὐκ αὐτὸ τὸ σῶμα. τό γέ τοι σῶμα τριχῇ διαστατὸν εἷναι λέγουσιν· ὀφείλομεν οὖν τὸ μῆκος καὶ τὸ πλάτος καὶ τὸ βάθος καταλαμβάνειν, ἴνα τὸ σῶμα καταλάβωμεν. εἰ γὰρ
τοῦτο ἡμῖν ὑπέπιπτεν, ἐγινώσκομεν ἂν καὶ τὰ ὑπάργυρα χρυσία. οὐδὲ τὸ σῶμα ἄρα.

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.) — 2.5.30 focus

[30] Now that body is not apprehended is easily shown thus: the attributes of an object¹ are different from the object whereof they are attributes. So when colour or any similar quality is perceived by us, what we perceive is probably the attributes of the body but not the body itself. Certainly the body, they say, exists in three dimensions; we ought therefore to apprehend its length and breadth and depth in order to apprehend the body. For if we perceived depth² we should also discern silver pieces under their coating of gold. Therefore we do not apprehend the body either.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.5.30

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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