Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 2.5.45

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[45] διόπερ οὐ χρὴ τοῖς πολλοῖς προσέχειν μᾶλλον ἢ τῷ ἑνί, πρὸς τῷ καὶ ἀκατάληπτον
εἶναι, καθάπερ ἐν τῷ τετάρτῳ τρόπῳ τῆς σκέψεως (I 100 — 117) ὑπεμνήσαμεν, τὴν κατὰ πλῆθος τῶν κρίσεων, ἀπείρων τῶν κατὰ μέρος ἀνθρώπων ὑπαρχόντων καὶ ἡμῶν μὴ δυναμένων ἁπάντων αὐτῶν τἀς κρίσεις
ἐπελθεῖν καὶ ἀποφήνασθαι, τί μὲν οἱ πλείους τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἁπάντων ἀποφαίνονται, τί δὲ οἱ ἐλάττους. καὶ κατὰ τοῦτο οὖν ἄτοπος ἡ κατὰ τὸ πλῆθος πρόκρισις τῶν κρινόντων.

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.) — 2.5.45 focus

[45] besides the further fact that—as we pointed out in ‟The Fourth Mode of Scepticism”¹—the difference in judgements that is based on numbers is non-apprehensible, since individual men are innumerable and we are incapable of investigating and expounding the judgements of all of them—what it is the majority of all mankind affirm and what the minority. Thus, on this showing also, the preference given to men’s judgements on the ground of their numbers is absurd.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.5.45

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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