Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 2.6.49

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[49] ἀρξώμεθα
δὲ ἀπὸ τῶν αἰσθήσεων.

Οὐκοῦν ἐπεὶ τινὲς μὲν κενοπαθεῖν τὰς αἰσθήσεις φασίν (οὐδὲν γὰρ ὑποκεῖσθαι ὧν ἀντιλαμβάνεσθαι δοκοῦσιν),
οἱ δὲ πάντα ὑποκεῖσθαι ὑφ᾿ ὧν οἴονται κινεῖσθαι λέγουσιν, οἱ δὲ τὰ μὲν ὑποκεῖσθαι, τὰ δὲ μὴ ὑποκεῖσθαι, τίνι συγκαταθησόμεθα οὐχ ἕξομεν· οὔτε γὰρ τῇ αἰσθήσει τὴν διαφωνίαν ἐπικρινοῦμεν, ἐπεὶ περὶ αὐτῆς ζητοῦμεν, πότερον
κενοπαθεῖ ἢ ἀληθῶς καταλαμβάνει, οὔτε ἑτέρῳ τινί, ἐπεὶ μηδὲ ἔστιν ἄλλο τι κριτήριον δι᾿ οὗ χρὴ κρίνειν κατὰ τὴν προκειμένην ὑπόθεσιν.

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.) — 2.6.49 focus

[49] Since, then, some¹ assert that the senses have ‟empty” impressions (none of the objects they seem to apprehend having any real existence), and others² say that all the objects by which they suppose them to be moved are really existent, and others again³ say that some of the objects are real, some unreal, we shall not know whom we should assent to. For we shall not decide the controversy by sense-perception, since it is regarding this that we are making our inquiry whether it is illusory or apprehends truly, nor yet by anything else, seeing that there does not even exist any other criterion ‟by means of which” one ought to judge, according to the present hypothesis.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.6.49

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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