Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.14.100

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[100] ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ ¹² 144 μέρη. εἰ γὰρ ἔστι μέρη, ἤτοι τοῦ ὅλου ταῦτά ἐστι μέρη ἢ ἀλλήλων ἢ ἑαυτοῦ ἕκαστον. οὔτε δὲ τοῦ ὃλου, ἐπεὶ μηδὲ ἔστι τι παρὰ τὰ μέρη (καὶ ἄλλως τὰ μέρη οὕτως
ἔσται μέρη ἑαυτῶν, ἐπεὶ ἕκαστον τῶν μερῶν συμπληρωτι- κὸν εἶναι λέγεται τοῦ ὅλου), οὔτε ἀλλήλων, ἐπεὶ τὸ μέρος ἐμπεριέχεσθαι δοκεῖ ἐν ἐκείνῳ οὗ ἐστι μέρος, καὶ ἄτοπόν ἐστι λέγειν τὴν χεῖρα, εἰ τύχοι, ἐν τῷ ποδὶ περιέχεσθαι.

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.) — 3.14.100 focus

[100] Nor yet parts. For if parts exist, either they are parts of the whole, or of one another, or each one of itself. But they are not parts of the whole, since it is nothing else than its parts (and besides, the parts will on this assumption be parts of themselves, since each of the parts is said to be complementary to the whole); nor yet of one another, since the part is said to be included¹ in that whereof it is part, and it is absurd to assert that, say, the hand is included in the foot.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. §§ 98—101 ~ adv. dogm. III 338—349.

2. 32 ἐστιν T (est): ἔσται G 13 ὅλον‘ LEABT (totum): ὅλ.ου M
τὸ add. Bekk.; inter αὐτοῦ et ὀλὸν spat. unius lit. M
ἀναιρουμένων (ablatis parttbus) quod iam Bekker restituit: αἱρουμένων LE : αἰρομένων MAB cf. p. 458, 3. 22 ἔσται EAB

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.14.100

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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