Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.18.120

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[120] ὧν οἱ μὲν ὑπάρχειν αὐτὸν φάσκοντες ἐπὶ τὴν ἐνάργειαν καταφεύγουσιν. τίς γὰρ ἄν, φασί, λέξειε μὴ εἶναι τόπον ὁρῶν τὰ μέρη τοῦ τόπου, οἶον τὰ δεξιὰ τὰ ἀριστερά, τὰ ἄνω τὰ κάτω, ἔμπροσθεν ¹ ὀπίσω, καὶ ἄλλοτε ἀλλαχοῦ γιγνόμενος, βλέπων
τε, ὅτι ἔνθα ὁ ὑφηγητὴς ὁ ἐμὸς δ’ διελέγετο, ἐνταῦθα ἐγὼ νῦν διαλέγομαι, ’μαι, τόπον τε διάφορον καταλαμβάνων τῶν κούφων φύσει καὶ ²³
τῶν φύσει βαρέων,

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.) — 3.18.120 focus

[120] And of these, those who maintain its existence have recourse to the evidence of experience.¹ Who, they argue, could assert that space does not exist when he sees the parts of space, such as right and left, up and down, before and behind; and when he is now here, now there, and sees that where my teacher² was talking there I am talking now; and when he observes that the place of things naturally light is different from that of things naturally heavy;

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. 29a

2. §§ 120—121 ~ adv. dogm. IV 7—12 (cf. Aristot. Metaph. p. 983a 26sqq. Fhys. 208b 11sqq.)

3. 23 ὡς del. Bekk. 24/25 περιέχομαι MEAB: περιέχο L 25 πρὸς ἄκρ’. secl. Kayser || τόπου secl. Bekk. || τοῦ addidi 26 τούτων EAB 28 ἂν om. MA 29 λέξειε Kayser: λέξει G 29/30 fort. <τὰ> ἔμπρ.<τὰ>ὀπ.?
τῶν Kayser

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.18.120

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