Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.29.263

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[263] εἰ δὲ τοῦτό ἐστιν ἀληθές, ἐπεὶ μὴ πάντα ἀθρόως τὰ θεωρήματα τῶν τεχνῶν ἀναλαμβάνει τις, ἀλλ’ εἴπερ ἄρα, κατὰ ‘ὲν ἕκαστον, ἴνα τις καὶ τοῦτο
καθ’ ὑπόθεσιν διδῷ, ὁ κατὰ ‘ὲν θεώρημα τῆς τέχνης ἀναλαμβάνειν λεγόμενος οὐκ ἂν τεχνίτης γένοιτο· ὑπεμιὥσπερ ¹ 183 μνῂσκομεν γάρ, ὅτι οὐ δύναται θεωρήματος ἑνὸς γνῶσις τὸν ἄτεχνον ποιῆσαι τεχνίτην. οὐδὲ ἐξ ἀτέχνου τοίνυν γίνεταί τις τεχνίτης. ὥστε καὶ διὰ ταῦτα φαίνεται ἀνυπόστατος εἶναι ὁ τεχνίτης. διὰ δὲ τοῦτο καὶ ὁ διδάσκων.

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.) — 3.29.263 focus

[263] But if this is true, seeing that no one acquires all the principles of the arts at once, but each .one singly, if at all—this point also being granted by way of assumption—the man who is said to acquire the principles of the art one by one will not be termed an expert; for we recall the conclusion that the learning of one principle cannot make an expert of the non- expert. No one, then, becomes an expert from being a non-expert. Hence, on these grounds too, the expert artist appears to be non-existent. And therefore the teacher also.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. 17 ὥσπερ <γὰρ> P 18 ὁ P: om. a 21 λέγεται GT (dicitur): φαίνεται P 26 ἐνέσται GT (inerit): ἔνεστιν P 27 ἐκκαταλημεων P Paris suppl. 133: ἔγκατ’ G 29 λέγοι Gen. 33 δύναιτο om. L 4 ἐγνωσμένα <τῶ> P

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.29.263

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