Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 2.7.74

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[74] ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ τοῦτο ἔστιν εἰπεῖν, ὅτι ἡ ψυχὴ καταλαμβάνει διὰ τῶν αἰσθητικῶν παθῶν τὰ ἐκτὸς ὑποκείμενα, (??) διὰ τὸ ὅμοια τὰ πάθη τῶν αἰσθήσεων εἶναι τοῖς ἐκτὸς ὑποκειμένοις. πόθεν γὰρ εἴσεται ἡ διάνοια, εἰ ὅμοιά ἐστι τὰ πάθη τῶν αἰσθήσεων τοῖς αἰσθητοῖς, μήτε αὐτὴ τοῖς ἐκτὸς ἐντυγχάνουσα, μήτε τῶν αἰσθήσεων αὐτῇ τὴν φύσιν αὐτῶν δηλουσῶν ἀλλὰ τὰ ἑαυτῶν πάθη, καθάπερ ¹² ἐκ τῶν τρόπων τῆς ἐποχῆς ἐπελογισάμην.

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.) — 2.7.74 focus

[74] Nor, again, is it possible to assert that the soul apprehends external realities by means of the affections of sense owing to the similarity of the affections of the senses to the external real objects. For how is the intellect to know whether the affections of the senses are similar to the objects of sense when it has not itself encountered the external objects, and the senses do not inform it about their real nature but only about their own affections, as I have argued from the Modes of Suspension?¹

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. §§ 72—75 ~ adv. dogm. I 354—358.

2. 30 κατὰ del. Arnim, at cf. p. 271, 8. 32 ἐπιγενομέναις AB 5 ὃ L 6 δύνασθαι L || καὶ del. Bekk. 7 δι’ αὐτῆς add. e T (per eam intellectus apprehendit) 13 πικράζεσθαί <με> 14 εἰ δὲ διαφέρει om. EAB 17 φαῦλος 18 ἔσται EAB 20 αἰσθητικῶν — 21 τῶν om. EAB

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.7.74

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