Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.28.257

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[257] ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ
τὸ ὄν. εἰ γὰρ διδάσκεται τὸ ὄν, ἤτοι καθὸ ὄν ἐστι διδάσκεται ἢ κατ’ ἄλλο τι. ἀλλ’ εἰ μέν, καθό <ἐστι> ἔστι διδακτόν, τῶν ὄντων ἔσται, διὰ δὲ τοῦτο οὐδὲ διδακτόν· τἀς γὰρ διδασκαλίας ἐκ τινῶν ὁμολογουμένων
καὶ ἀδιδάκτων γίνεσθαι προσήκει. οὐκ ἄρα τὸ ὂν καθὸ ὄν ἐστι διδακτόν ἐστιν. καὶ μὴν οὐδὲ κατ’ ἄλλο τι.

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.) — 3.28.257 focus

[257] Yet neither is the existent. For if the existent is taught, it is taught either in so far as it is existent or in so far as it is something else. But if it is to be taught in so far as it is existent, it will be one of the existing things, and therefore a thing incapable of being taught; for teaching ought to proceed from certain acknowledged facts which require no teaching.¹ Therefore the existent, in so far as it is existent, is not capable of being taught.

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