Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.10.72

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[72] φασὶν οὖν τινες, ὅτι δύναταί τι ἐν ᾡ ἔστι τόπω κινεῖσθαι· τἀς γοῦν περὶ τοῖς κέντροις περιδινουμένας σφαίρας ἐν
τῷ αὐτῶ μενούσας τόπω κινεῖσθαι. πρὸς οὓς μεταφέρειν χρὴ τὸν λόγον ἐφ’ ἕκαστον τῶν μερῶν τῆς σφαίρας, καὶ ὑπομιμνῄσκοντας, ὅτι ὅσον ἐπὶ τῷ λόγῳ μηδὲ κατὰ μέρη κινεῖται, συνάγειν ὅτι μηδὲ ἐν ᾧ ἔστι τόπῳ κινεῖταί τι.

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.) — 3.10.72 focus

[72] Some, then, assert that a thing can move in the place where it is; at any rate the globes which revolve round their axes move while remaining in the same place.¹ Against these men we should transfer the argument which applies to each of the parts of the globe, and, reminding them that, to judge by this argument, it does not move even in respect of its parts, draw the conclusion that nothing moves in the place where it is.

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