Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.28.256

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

View: By Chapter

← Previous Next →

[256] οὐκ ἄρα διδάσκεταί τι. πρὸς τούτοις ἤτοι τὸ ὂν διδάσκεται ἢ τὸ μὴ ὄν. τὸ μὲν οὖν μὴ ὂν οὐ διδάσκεται· εἰ γὰρ διδάσκεται
τὸ μὴ ὄν, ἐπεὶ τῶν ἀληθῶν δοκοῦσιν εἷναι αἱ διδασκαλίαι, ἀληθὲς ἔσται τὸ μὴ ὄν. ἀληθὲς δὲ ὂν καὶ ὑπάρξει· ἀληθὲς γὰρ εἶναί φασιν ὃ ὑπάρχει καὶ ἀντίκειταί τινι. ἄτοπον δέ ἐστι λέγειν ὑπάρχειν τὸ μὴ ὄν· οὐκ ἄρα διδάσκεται τὸ μὴ ὄν.

Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes. Sextus Empiricus. ed. Hermann Mutschmann. Germany. 2014.

Current edition First1KGreek

Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes (Greek) (Sextus Empiricus. Sexti Empiricii Opera, Volume 1. Mutschmann, Hermann, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1912.)

Translations (1)

Outlines of Pyrrhonism First1KGreek (Sextus Empiricus, Vol. 1. Bury, Robert Gregg, translator. London: William Heinemann Ltd.; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1933.) — 3.28.256 focus

[256] Further, either the existent is taught or the non- existent. Now the non-existent is not taught; for if the non-existent is taught the non-existent will be true, since teaching is held to be of things true. And if it is true, it will also subsist; for they declare that ‟a true thing is what subsists and is opposed to something.”¹ ‟But it is absurd to say that the non- existent subsists; therefore the non-existent is not taught.

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

Current edition First1KGreek

Stable identifiers