Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 2.6.62

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[62] ὅτι τε κἂν ὑποθώμεθα διάνοιαν ἧς ἐντρεχεστέρα οὐκ ἂν γένοιτο,
οὐ συγκαταθησόμεθα τῷ δι’ αὐτῆς κρίνοντι, εὐλαβούμενοι μὴ ψευδῆ τινα λόγον προφερόμενος διὰ τὸ ὀξυτάτης διανοίας μετεσχηκέναι δύναται ἡμᾶς πείθειν ὅτι ἔστιν ἀληθής. οὐκοῦν οὐδὲ τῇ διανοίᾳ μόνῃ δεῖ κρίνειν τὰ πράγματα.

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.) — 2.6.62 focus

[62] we ought not to attend to it, since it is not evident whether yet another intellect may not arise which is cleverer than it; and further, that even if we assume an intellect which none could possibly surpass, we shall not assent to the man who judges by means of it, dreading lest he may put forward some false statement and succeed in persuading us of its truth because he possesses the keenest intellect. Neither, then, by the intellect alone ought we to judge objects.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.6.62

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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