Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.4.14

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[14] οἱ μὲν γὰρ σῶμα, οἱ δὲ ἀσώματον τὸ αἴτιον εἶναί φασιν. δόξαι δ’ ἂν αἴτιον εἶναι κοινότερον κατ’ αὐτοὺς δι’ ὃ ἐνεργοῦν γίνεται τὸ ἀποτέλεσμα, οἷον ὧς ὁ ἥλιος ἢ ἡ τοῦ ἡλίου θερμότης τοῦ χεῖσθαι τὸν κηρὸν ἢ τῆς χύσεως τοῦ κηροῦ. καὶ γὰρ ἐν τούτῳ διαπεφωνήκασιν,
οἱ μὲν προσηγοριῶν αἴτιον εἶναι τὸ αἴτιον φάσκοντες, οἶον τῆς χύσεως, οἱ δὲ κατηγορημάτων, οἶον τοῦ χεῖσθαι. διό, καθάπερ εἶπον, κοινότερον ἂν εἴη τὸ αἴτιον τοῦτο δι’ ὃ ἐνεργοῦν γίνεται τὸ ἀποτέλεσμα.

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.) — 3.4.14 focus

[14] For some affirm Cause to be corporeal, others incorporeal.¹ In the broad sense, a Cause would seem to be, according to them, ‟That by whose energizing the effect comes about;”² as, for example, the sun or the sun’s heat is the cause of the wax being melted or of the melting of the wax. For even on this point they are at variance, some declaring that Cause is causal of nouns, such as ‟the melting,” others of predicates, such as ‟being melted.” Hence, as I said, in the broad sense Cause will be ‟that by whose energizing the effect comes about.”

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.4.14

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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