Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.5.19

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[19] καὶ περιτρέπεται δὲ ὁ λέγων
μηδὲν αἴτιον εἶναι· εἰ μὲν γὰρ ἁπλῶς καὶ ἄνευ τινὸς αἰτίας τοῦτό φησι λέγειν, ἄπιστος ἔσται· εἰ δὲ διά τινα αἰτίαν, βουλόμενος ἀναιρεῖν τὸ αἴτιον τίθησιν, ἀποδιδόσθω αἰτίαν δι’ ἣν οὐκ ἔστιν αἴτιον.

Διὰ ταῦτα μὲν οὖν πιθανόν ἐστιν εἶναι τὸ αἴτιον·

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.) — 3.5.19 focus

[19] Also, he who asserts that there is no Cause is refuted; for if he says that he makes this assertion absolutely and without any cause, he will not win credence; but if he says that he makes it owing to some cause, he is positing Cause while wishing to abolish it, since he offers us a cause to prove the non-existence of Cause.

For these reasons, then, the existence of Cause is plausible.

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