Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.6.51

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[51] ἀλλ’ ἔστω κατ’ ἁ συγχώρησιν τὰς αἰσθήσεις ἀντιληπτικὰς εἷναι· οὐδὲν γὰρ ἧττον καὶ οὕτως ἄπιστοι εὑρεθήσονται πρὸς τὴν κρίσιν
τῶν ἐκτὸς ὑποκειμένων πραγμάτων. αἱ γοῦν αἰσυθήσεις ὑπεναντίως κινοῦνται ὑπὸ τῶν ἐκτό·ς, οἷον ἡ γεῦσις ὑπὸ τοῦ αὐτοῦ μέλιτος ὁτὲ μὲν πικράζεται, ὁτὲ δὲ γλυκάζεται, καὶ ἡ ὅρασις τὸ αὐτὸ χρῶμα ὁτὲ μὲν αἱμωπὸν, ὁτὲ δὲ λευκὸν εἶναι <δοκεῖ> ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ ἡ ὄσφρησις ἑαυτῇ συμφωνεῖ·

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.) — 2.6.51 focus

[51] But let it be granted, by way of concession, that the senses are apprehensive; yet, even so they will not be found any the less unreliable for judging the external real objects. For certainly the senses are affected in diverse ways by external objects—taste, for instance, perceives the same honey now as bitter and now as sweet; and vision pronounces the same colour now blood-red and now white.¹

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