Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.20.156

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[156] ταῦτά τε οὖν ¹²³⁴ 157 ὀνειροπολοῦσιν, καὶ ὅτι ἕτερόν τι ἐστὶν ὁ ἀριθμὸς παρὰ τὰ ἀριθμητὰ κατασκευάζουσι, λέγοντες ὅτι εἰ τὸ ζῷον κατὰ τὸν ἑαυτοῦ λόγον ἐστίν, εἰ τύχοι, ἔν, τὸ φυτόν, ἐπεὶ μή ἐστι
ζῷον, οὐκ ἔσται ἕν· ἔστι δὲ καὶ <τὸ> φυτὸν ἔν· οὐκ ἄρα ζῷον, <ὡς ζῷον>, ἔν ἐστιν, ἀλλὰ κατά τι ἕτερον ἐπιθεωρούμενον ἔξωθεν αὐτῷ, οὗ μετέχει ἕκαστον καὶ γίνεται δι’ αὐτὸ ἔν. καὶ εἰ τὰ ἀριθμητά ἐστιν ὁ ἀριθμός, ἐπειδὴ ἄωθρωποί εἰσιν οἱ ἀριθμητοὶ καὶ βόες, εἰ τύχοι, καὶ ἵπποι,
ἄνθρωποι καὶ βόες καὶ ἵπποι ἔσται ὁ ἀριθμός, καὶ λευκὸς ἀριθμὸς καὶ μέλας καὶ γενειήτης, εἰ τύχοιεν τοιοῦτοι ὄντες οἱ μετρούμενοι.

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.) — 3.20.156 focus

[156] These are the fictions they imagine; and they also make out that number is something else apart from numerables, arguing that if ‟animal” according to its proper definition¹ is (say) one, the plant, since it is not an animal, will not be one; but the plant is one; therefore the animal is not one qua animal but in virtue of some other attribute perceived outside itself, whereof each animal partakes and because of which it becomes one. And if number is the numerables, since the numerables are men (say) and oxen and horses, number will be men and oxen and horses—and number will be white and black and bearded, if the objects counted should happen to be such.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. § 153 cf. adv. dogm. I 104.

2. § 154 ~ adv. dogm. I 99—100 adv. math. IV 4—5.

3. § 155 ~ adv. dogm. I 95—97 IV 283.

4. 15 τοῦ Πυθ. Bekk. : τῶν ΙΙυθ. G 19 αἱ ἄτομοι coll. p. 527, 7 28 ἄρα ML: γὰρ EAB 29 ἀόριστος Fabr.: ἄριστοςG: om. Stephanus 30 δυάδες alt. om. M 5 τριάδος EAB

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