Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 2.9.86

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[86] καὶ μὴν τό ‘το’, ὅπερ φασὶν εἶναι πάντων γενικώτατον, ἤτοι ἀληθὲς ἢ ψεῦδός ἐστιν ἢ οὔτε ψεῦδος οὔτε ἀληθές, ἢ καὶ ψεῦδος καὶ ἀληθές. εἰ μὲν οὖν ψεῦδος αὐτὸ εἷναι φήσουσιν, ὁμολογήσουσιν, ὅτι πάντα ἐστὶ ψευδῆ. ὥσπερ γάρ, ἐπεὶ τὸ ζῷον ἔμψυχόν ἐστι, καὶ πάντα τὰ ζῷα τὰ κατὰ
μέρος ἔμψυχά ἐστιν, οὕτως, εἰ τὸ γενικώτατον πάντων (τό ‘τι’) ψεῦδός ἐστι, καὶ πάντα τὰ κατὰ μέρος ἔσται ψευδῆ καὶ οὐδὲν ἀληθές. ᾧ συνεισάγεται τὸ μηδὲν εἶναι ψεῦδος· καὶ γὰρ αὐτὸ τὸ ‘πάντα ἐστὶ ψευδῆ’ καὶ τὸ ‘ἔστι τι ψεῦδος’ τῶν πάντων καθεστὼς ψεῦδος ἔσται. εἰ δὲ ἀληθές
ἐστι τό ‘τι’, πάντα ἔσται ἀληθῆ· ᾧ συνεισάγεται πάλιν τὸ μηδὲν εἶναι ἀληθές, εἴγε καὶ αὐτὸ τοῦτο τὶ ὑπάρχον (λέγω δὲ τὸ μηδὲν εἶναι ἀληθές) ἀληθές ἐστιν.

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.) — 2.9.86 focus

[86] Moreover, the ‟something,” which is, they declare, the highest genus of all,¹ is either true or false or neither false nor true or both false and true. If, then, they shall assert that it is false they will be confessing that all things are false. For just as it follows because ‟animal” is animate that all particular animals also are animate, so too if the highest genus of all (‟something”) is false all the particulars also will be false and nothing true. And this involves also the conclusion that nothing is false; for the very statements ‟all things are false,” and ‟something false exists,” being themselves included in the ‟all,” will be false.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.9.86

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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