Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.30.266

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[266] Οὐδὲν δὲ ἧττον καὶ <οὗτος> διὰ τούτων ἀπορεῖται. ὁ γάρ τρόπος διδασκαλίας ἤτοι ἐναργείᾳ γίνεται ἢ λόγῳ· οὔτε δὲ ἐναργείᾳ γίνεται οὔτε λόγῳ, καθάπερ παραστήσομεν· οὐδὲ ὁ
τρόπος ἄρα τῆς μαθήσεως ἐστιν εὔπορος. ἐναργείᾳ μὲν οὖν οὐ γίνεται διδασκαλία, ἐπεὶ τῶν δεικνυμένων ἐστὶν ἡ ἐνάργεια. τὸ δὲ δεικνύμενον πᾶσίν ἐστι φαινόμενον· τὸ δὲ φαινόμενον ᾑ ἡ φαίνεται, πᾶσίν ἐστι ληπτόν· τὸ δὲ
¹² 184 κοινῶς πᾶσι ληπτὸν ἀδίδακτον· οὐκ ἄρα τι ἐναργείᾳ διδακτόν ἐστιν. καὶ μὴν οὐδὲ λόγῳ διδάσκεταί 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.) — 3.30.266 focus

[266] And it is no less disputed on the following grounds. The method of teaching comes to exist either by ocular evidence or by speech;¹ but it does not come to exist either by ocular evidence or by speech, as we shall show; therefore the method of learning also is not easy to discover.

Now teaching does not come by ocular evidence, since ocular evidence consists in things exhibited. But what is exhibited is apparent to all; and the apparent, qua apparent, is perceptible by all; and what is perceptible by all in common is incapable of being taught; therefore nothing is capable of being taught by ocular evidence.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. §§ 266—269 ~ adv. dogm. V 239—243.

2. 18 ἐς GP 19 ἂν λάβοι P: ἀναλάβοι GT (non assumeret) 24 τῆς om. L 29a tit. exst. in L et P; in Μ et EAB sectio nova incipit v. 31 Οὐδὲν κτλ. praefixo titulo: εἰ ἔστι μαθήσεως τρόπος 82 οὗτος addidi, κατὰ ἰδίαν Riistow coll. p. 182,12 33 ἐναργείᾳ utrobique Fabr.: ἐνεργείᾳ GPT (actu)

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.30.266

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