Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 2.9.90

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[90] ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ ὁ λέγων τὰ ἄδηλα μόνον εἷναι ἀληθῆ πάντα μὲν οὐ λέξει εἶναι ἀληθῆ οὐ γὰρ καὶ τὸ ἀρτίους εἶναι τοὺς ἀστέρας ἀληθὲς εἶναι λέξει ἢ τὸ περιττοὺς τούτους ὑπάρχειν)· εἰ δέ τινα, τίνι κρινοῦμεν,
ὅτι τάδε μὲν τὰ ἄδηλά ἐστιν ἀληθῆ, τάδε δὲ ψευδῆ; φαινομένῳ μὲν γὰρ οὐδαμῶς· εἰ δὲ ἀδήλῳ, ἐπεὶ ζητοῦμεν, τίνα τῶν ἀδήλων ἐστὶν ἀληθῆ καὶ τίνα ψευδῆ, δεήσεται καὶ τοῦτο τὸ ἄδηλον ἀδήλου ἑτέρου τοῦ ἐπικρινοῦντος αὐτό, κἀκεῖνο ἄλλου, καὶ μέχρις ἀπείρου. διόπερ οὐδὲ ἄδηλα
μόνον ἐστὶ τἀληθῆ.

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.) — 2.9.90 focus

[90] Similarly also he who declares that the non-evident only are true will not imply that they are all true (for he will not say that it is true that the stars¹ are even in number and that they are also odd); while if some are true, whereby shall we decide that these non-evident things are true and those false? Certainly not by an apparent criterion; and if by a non-evident one, then since our problem is which of the non- evident things are true and which false, this non- evident criterion will itself also need another to judge it, and this again a third, and so on ad infinitum. Neither, then, are the true things non-evident only.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.9.90

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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