Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.18.125

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[125] λέγεται οὖν, ὅτι ἐπειδὴ διάστημα ὑπὸ σώματος κατεχόμενόν φασιν εἶναι τὸν τόπον,
πῶς καὶ λέγουσιν αὐτὸν εἶναι διάστημα; πότερον τὸ μῆκος τοῦ σώματος ἢ τὸ πλάτος ἢ τὸ βάθος μόνον ἢ τὰς τρεῖς διαστάσεις; εἰ μὲν γὰρ μίαν διάστασιν, οὐκ ἐξισάζεται ὁ τόπος τῷ οὗ τόπος ἐστίν, πρὸς τῷ καὶ μέρος
τοῦ περιεχομένου τὸ περιέχον εἶναι, ὃ παντάπασιν ἀπεμφαίνει.

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.) — 3.18.125 focus

[125] Their opponents then argue thus: When the Stoics define Place as an ‟interval occupied by body,” in what sense do they call it an ‟interval?” Do they mean the length of the body or its width or its depth only, or all three dimensions? For if they mean one dimension, the place is not equated with the object of which it is the place, and besides, that which includes is part of what is included, which is pure nonsense.¹

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