Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 2.6.69

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[69] ἐπεὶ οὖν μήτε ὑπὸ τῶν ὁμογενῶν τὰ ὁμογενῆ κριτήρια
δύναται ἐπικρίνεσθαι μήτε ὑπὸ ἑνὸς γένους ἀμφότερα τὰ γένη μήτε ὑπὸ τῶν ἑτερογενῶν ἐναλλάξ, οὐ δυνησόμεθα προκρίνειν διάνοιαν διανοίας ἢ αἴσθησιν αἰσθήσεως. διὰ δὲ τοῦτο οὐδὲ ἕξομεν διὰ τίνος κρινοῦμεν· εἰ γὰρ μήτε πάσαις ταῖς αἰσθήσεσι καὶ ταῖς διανοίαις κρίνειν δυνησόμεθα,
μήτε εἰσόμεθα ποίαις μὲν δεῖ κρίνειν, ποίαις δὲ μή, οὐχ ἕξομεν δι’ οὗ κρινοῦμεν τὰ πράγματα ὥστε καὶ διὰ ταῦτα ἀνύπαρκτον ἂν εἴη τὸ κριτήριον τὸ δι’ οὗ.

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.) — 2.6.69 focus

[69] Since, therefore, criteria of the one species cannot be judged by those of a like species, nor those of both the species by those of one species, nor conversely by those of an unlike species, we shall not be able to prefer intellect to intellect or sense to sense. And because of this we shall have nothing by which to judge; for if we shall be unable to judge by all the senses and intellects, and shall not know either by which of them we ought and by which we ought not to judge, then we shall possess no means by which to judge objects.

Consequently, for these reasons also the criterion ‟By means of which” will have no real existence.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.6.69

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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