Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 2.5.43

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[43] Εἰ δὲ φήσει τις, ὅτι τῇ τῶν πολλῶν συμφωνίᾳ χρὴ προσέχειν, λέξομεν ὅτι τοῦτ’ ἔστι μάταιον. πρῶτον μὲν
γὰρ σπάνιον ’ίσως ἐστὶ τὸ ἀληθές, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἐνδέχεται ἕνα τῶν πολλῶν φρονιμώτερον εἶναι. εἶτα καὶ παντὶ κριτηρίῳ πλείους ἀντιδοξοῦσι τῶν κατ’ αὐτὸ συμφωνούντων· οἱ γὰρ ὁποιονοῦν ἀπολιπόντες κριτήριον ἕτερον τοῦ συμφωνεῖσθαι δοκοῦντος παρά τισιν ἀντιδοξοῦσί τε αὐτῷ καὶ
κατὰ πολὺ πλείους εἰσὶ τῶν περὶ αὐτοῦ συμφωνούντων.

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.) — 2.5.43 focus

[43] And if anyone shall say that we ought to attend to the consensus of the majority, we shall reply that this is idle.¹ For, in the first place, truth is a rare thing, and on this account it is possible for one man to be wiser than the majority. And, next, the opponents of any criterion are more numerous than those who agree about it; for those who admit any kind of criterion different from that which seems to some to be generally agreed upon oppose this latter, and they are much more numerous than those who agree about it.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.5.43

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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