Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.18.126

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[126] εἰ δὲ αἱ τρεῖς διαστάσεις, ἐπεὶ οὔτε κενὸν ὑπόκειται ἐν τῷ λεγομένῳ τόπῳ οὔτε ἄλλο σῶμα διάστασιν ἔχον, μόνον δὲ τὸ ἐν τόπῳ λεγόμενον εἶναι σῶμα οὐ συνέστηκεν ἐκ τῶν διαστάσεων ἔστι γὰρ τοῦτο μῆκος καὶ
πλάτος καὶ βάθος καὶ ἀντιτυπία, ἣ δὴ συμβεβηκέναι λέ- γεται ταῖς διαστάσεσι ταῖς προειρημέναις) , αὐτὸ τὸ σῶμα ἔσται ἑαυτοῦ τόπος, καὶ τὸ αὐτὸ περιέχον καὶ περιεχόμενον, ὅπερ ἀντ’ ὀπὸν. οὐκ ἄρα ἔστι τις διάστασις τόπου ὑποκειμένου. διὰ δὲ τοῦτο οὐδὲ ἔστι τι ὁ τόπος.

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.) — 3.18.126 focus

[126] And if by ‟interval” is meant the three dimensions, then, since in the so-called place there subsists neither a void nor another body which has dimensions, but only the body said to exist in place, and it is composed of the dimensions (for it is length and breadth and depth and solidity,¹ this last being said to be a property of the foregoing dimensions), the body itself will be its own place and at once both container and contained, which is absurd.

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