Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.10.67

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[67] οἱ δὲ τὴν ὕπαρξιν τῆς κινήσεως ἀναιροῦντες λόγοις ἐπιχειροῦσι τοιούτοις. εἰ κινεῖταί τι, ἤτοι ὑφ’ ἑαυτοῦ κινεῖται ἢ ὑφ’ ἑτέρου. ἀλλ᾿
εἰ μὲν ὑφ’ ἑτέρου, <. . . . . . . . . >. τὸ γὰρ λεγόμενον ὑφ’ ἑτέρου κινεῖσθαι ἤτοι ἀναιτίως κινηθήσεται ἢ κατά τινα αἰτίαν. ἀναιτίως μὲν οὐδέν φασι γίνεσθαι· εἰ δὲ κατά τινα αἰτίαν κινεῖται, ἡ αἰτία, καθ᾿ ἣν κινεῖται, κινητικὴ αὐτοῦ γενήσεται,
ὅθεν εἰς ἄπειρον ἐκπίπτει κατὰ τὴν μικρῷ πρόσθεν εἰρημένην ἐπιβολήν.

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.) — 3.10.67 focus

[67] but those who deny the existence of motion allege such arguments as these: If a thing is moved, it is moved either by itself or by another thing. But if it is moved by another, it will be moved either causelessly or owing to some cause. Nothing, they assert, is moved causelessly; but if it is moved owing to some cause, the cause owing to which it moves will be what makes it move, and thus we are involved in an infinite regress, according to the criticism stated a little while ago.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.10.67

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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