Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.9.89

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[89] εἰ δὲ φαινόμενον, ἐπεὶ ζητεῖται, τίνα μὲν φαινόμενά ἐστιν ἀληθῆ, τίνα δὲ ψευδῆ, καὶ τὸ λαμβανόμενον φαινόμενον πρὸς τὴν κρίσιν τῶν φαινομένων πάλιν ἑτέρου δεήσεται κριτηρίου φαινομένου, κἀκεῖνο ἄλλου, καὶ μέχρις ἀπείρου. ἀδύνατον δὲ ἄπειρα
ἐπικρίνειν· ἀδύνατον ἄρα καταλαβεῖν, εἰ φαινόμενά ἐστι μόνον τὰ ἀληθῆ.

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.) — 2.9.89 focus

[89] And if it is apparent, since the matter in question is what apparent things are true and what false, that apparent thing which is adopted for the purpose of judging the apparent objects will itself in turn require an apparent criterion, and this again another, and so on ad infinitum. But it is impossible to judge an infinite series; and hence it is impossible to apprehend whether the true things are apparent only.

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