Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.5.20

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[20] ὅτι δὲ καὶ τὸ λέγειν μὴ εἶναί τινός τι αἴτιον πιθανόν ἐστι, φανερὸν ἔσται λόγους ἡμῶν ἐκθεμένων ὀλίγους ἀπὸ πολλῶν ἐπὶ τοῦ παρόντος πρὸς τὴν τούτου ὑπόμνησιν. οἷον γοῦν ἀδύνατόν ἐστι τὸ αἴτιον ἐννοῆσαι πρὶν τὸ ἀπο- ¹² 123
τούτου τούτου καταλαβεῖν ὧς ἀποτέλεσμα αὐτοῦ· τότε
γὰρ γνωρίζομεν, ὅτι αἴτιόν ἐστι τοῦ ἀποτελέσματος, ὅταν ἐκεῖνο ὧς ἀποτέλεσμα καταλαμβάνωμεν.

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.) — 3.5.20 focus

[20] But that it is also plausible to say that nothing is the Cause of anything will be evident when we have set forth, to suit the occasion, a few of the many arguments which go to prove this case. Thus it is, for example, impossible to conceive the Cause before apprehending its effect as its effect; for we only recognize that it is causative of the effect when we apprehend the latter as an effect.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. §§ 17—19 ~ adv. dogm. III 200—204.

2. 17 ὄμβροι κατὰ <κατὰ τύχην> EAB 18 χίονες ὡς <ὡς ἔτυχεν> et ὂμβρων ἐπεὶ <ἐπεὶ μετέχει> EAB ΙΙ ἐγίνοντο Beek.: έγένοντο G
ἐστι om. L 22 φήσει Kayser || λέγειν G: εἶναι Τ (esse)
τίθησι GT (ponit): θήσει Kayser || ἀποδιδούς Kayser: ἀπο- δίδωσι γοῦν Bekk. : fort. locus sic reficiendus τὸ αἴτιον, <αἴτιόν τι> τίθησιν ἀποδιδούς cf. p. 433, 13sqq. 23 ἀποδιδόσθω —
αἴτιον.. causam causam T διὰ — οὖν om. Μ 25 εἶναι —
ἐστι om. M 26 τι om. EABT

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.5.20

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