Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.20.166

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[166] ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς λόγος καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἀριθμῶν τῶν κατὰ σύνθεσιν ἀποτελεῖσθαι λεγομένων. εἰ οὖν μήτε κατὰ ἀφαίρεσιν μήτε κατὰ πρόσθεσιν μήτε ἄνευ ἀφαιρέσεως καὶ προσθέσεως γίγνονται οἱ σύνθετοι λεγόμενοι εἶναι ἀριθμοὶ ἐκ τῶν ἐπαναβεβηκότων , ἀσύστατός
ἐστιν ἡ γένεσις τοῦ κατ’ ἰδίαν καὶ παρὰ τὰ ἀριθμητὰ ¹² 160 εἶναι λεγομένου ἀριθμοῦ. ὅτι δὲ οὐδὲ ἀγένητοι τυγχάνουσιν ὄντες οἱ κατὰ σύνθεσιν ἀριθμοί, δηλοῦσιν αὐτοὶ συντίθεσθαί τε αὐτοὺς καὶ γίγνεσθαι φάσκοντες ἐκ τῶν ἐπαναβεβηκότων,
, οἷον τῆς τε μονάδος καὶ δυάδος τῆς ἀορίστου.

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.) — 3.20.166 focus

[166] And the same argument applies to all the other numbers which are said to be formed as a result of combination.

If, then, the numbers which are said to be compounded from the superior¹ numbers are formed neither by subtraction nor by addition nor without subtraction and addition, the formation of the number which is said to be independent and apart from the numerables is non-composite. But they themselves make it clear that the numbers formed by combination are not ungenerated by asserting that they are compounded and generated from the superior numbers —from the monad, for example, and the Indefinite Dyad.²

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. §§ 164—165 ~ adv. math. IV 21—22 (e Platonis Phaedone 96 E sqq. sumpta.)

2. 27 τι add. Bekk. 29 δυάδα Kayser: μονάδα G 30 ὥσπερ ὥστε G ἐκ τῶν LEAB: αὐτῶν M 11 παρὰ Bekk.: περὶ G

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.20.166

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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