Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.3.6

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[6] Ἳνα δὲ καὶ ἐπινοῆται ὁ θεός, ἐπέχειν ἀνάγκη περὶ ¹ 120 τοῦ πότερον ἔστιν ἢ οὐκ ἔστιν, ὅσον ἐπὶ τοῖς δογματικοῖς. τὸ γὰρ εἷναι τὸν θεὸν πρόδηλον μὲν οὔκ ἐστιν. εἰ γὰρ ἐξ ἑαυτοῦ προσέπιπτεν, συνεφώνησαν ἂν οἱ δογματικοί, τίς
ἐστι καὶ ποδαπὸς καὶ ποῦ· ἡ ἀνεπίκριτος δὲ διαφωνία πεποίηκεν αὐτὸν ἄδηλον ἡμῖν εἶναι δοκεῖν καὶ ἀποδείξεως δεόμενον.

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.) — 3.3.6 focus

[6] Further, in order to form a conception of God one must necessarily—so far as depends on the Dogmatists —suspend judgement as to his existence or non-existence. For the existence of God is not pre-evident.¹ For if God impressed us automatically, the Dogmatists would have agreed together regarding his essence, his character, and his place; whereas their interminable disagreement has made him seem to us non-evident and needing demonstration.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. 19 providere ipsos nohis Τ 24 εἰδωλοποιεῖσθαι Kayser coll. p. 109, 14 || τε: igitur Τ 25 που ML: του EAB: intelligi alicui (fort. pro alicubi cf. p. 134, 15) Τ 26 τὸν θεὸν εἷναι L 2 δὲ om. EAB 4 αὐτῶν <ἐπινοηθὲν>
τοῦτο EABT (hoc): τοῦτον L: om. M 6 γάρ add. T (quemadmodum enim qut) 16/17 περὶ τοῦ πότερον G: de hoc prius utrum Τ

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.3.6

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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