Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.6.53

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[53] πότερον οὖν πάσας τἀς φαντασίας ἀληθεῖς εἶναι φήσει τις, ἢ τάσδε μὲν ἀληθεῖς, τάσδε δὲ ψευδεῖς, ἢ καὶ ψευδεῖς ἁπάσας, εἰπεῖν ἀμήχανον, μηδὲν ἡμῶν ἐχόντων κριτήριον ὡμολογημένον δι’ οὗ κρινοῦμεν ὃ προκρίνειν μέλλομεν, ἀλλὰ μηδὲ ἀποδείξεως εὐπορούντων
ἀληθοῦς τε καὶ κεκριμένης, διὰ τὸ μέχρι νῦν ζητεῖσθαι τὸ τῆς ἀληθείας κριτήριον, δι’ οὗ καὶ τὴν ἀληθῆ ἀπόδειξιν ἐπικρίνεσθαι προσήκει.

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.) — 2.6.53 focus

[53] Whether, then, one is to call all the appearances true, or some true and some false, or all false, it is impossible to say since we possess no agreed criterion whereby we shall judge the question we are proposing to decide, nor are we even provided with a proof that is true and approved, because we are still in search of the criterion of truth ‟By means of which” the true proof itself ought to be tested.

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