Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.4.16

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[16] ἔνιοι μέντοι καὶ παρόντα μελλόντων τῶν αἴτια ἔφασαν εἶναι, ὧς τὰ προκαταρκτικά, οἶον τὴν ἐπιτεταμένην ἡλίωσιν πυρετοῦ. τινὲς δὲ ταῦτα
παρῃτήσαντο, ἐπειδὴ τὸ αἴτιον πρός τι ὑπάρχον καὶ πρὸς ¹ 123 τὸ ἀποτέλεσμα ὂν οὐ δύναται προηγεῖσθαι αὐτοῦ ὧς αἴτιον. ἐν δὲ τῇ περὶ αὐτῶν διαπορήσει τοιάδε λέγομεν.

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.) — 3.4.16 focus

[16] Some of them, however, have asserted further that things present are causes of things future, being ‟antecedents;” as when intense exposure to the sun causes fever. But this view is rejected by some, on the ground that, since the Cause is relative to something existent and to a real effect, it cannot precede it as its cause.¹

As regards this controversy, our position is as follows:

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. 9 κοινῶς Pappenheim dubit. 13 add. T (de causa assignant) cf. p. 123, 23. 14 περὶ αὐτοῦ Kayser 20 τὸ αἴτιον Gen. : τὸ ἀγγεῖον GT (vas) 29 αἴτιον Τ (causam): αἴτιος G
γὰρ add. T (sic enim) cf. v. 28 30 a συναίτιον Kayser, at cf. V. 29 1 τι et τις om. T

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.4.16

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