Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.19.139

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[139] καὶ ἄλλως· εἰ δοθείη ψεῦδος μὲν εἶναι τὸ σῶμα εἶναι τὸν χρόνον, ψεῦδος δὲ καὶ τὸ ὅτι ἀσώματός ἐστιν, αὐτόθεν δόθη ἔται ἡ τοῦ χρόνου
ἀνυπαρξία· παρὰ γὰρ ταῦτα οὐδὲν εἶναι δύναται ἕτε- ρον. οὔτε τίνες μέν εἰσιν ἀληθεῖς, τίνες δὲ ψευδεῖς δυνατὸν καταλαβεῖν διά τε τὴν ἰσοσθενῆ διαφωνίαν καὶ τὴν ἀπορίαν τὴν κατὰ <τὸ> κριτήριόν τε καὶ τὴν ὥστε διὰ ταῦτα οὐδὲν ἕξομεν περὶ χρόνου διαβεβαιώσασθαι.

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.) — 3.19.139 focus

[139] And besides, should it be granted that the assertion of the corporeality of time is false, and that of its incorporeality likewise false, then, ipso facto, the unreality of time will be granted; for it cannot be anything but one or other of these. Nor yet can we apprehend which theories are true, which false, owing to the equal weight¹ of the rival opinions as well as the perplexity regarding the criterion and proof.²

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