Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.6.68

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[68] ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν διανοιῶν λόγος. εἰ δὲ ταῖς μὲν αἰσθήσεσι τὰς διανοίας
ἐπικρινοῦσι, τῇ διανοίᾳ δὲ τἀς αἰσθήσεις, ὁ διάλληλος εὑρίσκεται τρόπος, καθ’ ὅν, ἴνα μὲν αἱ αἰσθήσεις ἐπικριθῶσι, δεῖ προκεκρίσθαι τἀς διανοίας, ἴνα δὲ αἱ διάνοιαι δοκιμασθῶσι, χρὴ προδιευκρινεῖσθαι τἀς αἰσθήσεις.

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.) — 2.6.68 focus

[68] And the same argument applies to the intellects. And if they shall judge the intellects by the senses, and the senses by the intellect, this involves circular reasoning inasmuch as it is required that the intellects should be judged first in order that the senses may be judged, and the senses be first scrutinized in order that the intellects may be tested.

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