Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.3.2

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[2] Οὐκοῦν ἐπεὶ θεὸν εἶναι δραστικώτατον αἴτιον οἱ πλείους ἀπεφήναντο, πρότερον περὶ θεοῦ σκοπήσωεν, ἐκεῖνο προει- ¹²³ 119 πόντες, ὅτι τῷ μὲν βίῳ κατακολουθοῦντες ἀδοξάστως φαμὲν εἷναι θεοὺς καὶ σέβομεν θεοὺς καὶ προνοεῖν αὐτούς φαμεν, πρὸς δὲ τὴν προπέτειαν τῶν δογματικῶν τάδε λέγομεν.

Τῶν ἐννοουμένων ἡμῖν πραγμάτων τἀς οὐσίας ἐπινοεῖν ὀφείλομεν, οἷον εἰ σώματά ἐστιν ἢ ἀσώματα. ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰ εἴδη· οὐ γὰρ ἄν τις ἵππον ἐννοῆσαι δύναιτο μὴ οὐχὶ πρότερον τὸ εἶδος τοῦ ἵππου μαθών. τό τε ἐννοούμενον ἐννοεῖσθαί που ὀφείλει.

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.) — 3.3.2 focus

[2] Since, then, the majority have declared that God is a most efficient Cause, let us begin by inquiring about God,¹ first premising that although, following the ordinary view,² we affirm undogmatically that Gods exist and reverence Gods and ascribe to them foreknowledge, yet as against the rashness of the Dogmatists we argue as follows.

When we conceive objects we ought to form conceptions of their substances³ as well, as, for instance, whether they are corporeal or incorporeal. And also of their forms; for no one could conceive ‟Horse” unless he had first learnt the horse’s form. And of course the object conceived must be conceived as existing somewhere.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. § 1 ~ adv. dogm. III 4 —12.

2. § 2 — λέγομεν ~ adv. dogm. III 49.

3. 30 τι om. B 32 τις om. B 34 τούς πιθανοὺς B ΙΙ 5 οὖν add. T (quidem igitur) 6 τοιαῦτα G: ταῦτα T (hec): τοσαῦτα Gen. 9 eis eis T (παρ’ αὐτοῖς?) ΙΙ τόπον L: τὸν τόπον MEAB: localiterT, fort. κατὰ <τοῦτον> τὸν τόον cf. p 392,15. 11 ἀρξώμεθα MEABT (incipiamus) : ἀρξόμεθα L 11 a et 15 a tituli inverso ordine exstant in L 13 δραστικὰς EAB: δραστηρίους ML

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.3.2

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