Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.5.24

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[24] καὶ ἄλλως, ἐπεὶ περὶ τῆς ὑπάρξεως τοῦ αἰτίου ζητοῦμεν, δεήσει πάντως αὐτὸν καὶ τῆς αἰτίας τοῦ εἶναί τι αἴτιον αἰτίαν παρασχεῖν, κἀκείνης ἄλλην, καὶ ¹ 124 μέχρις ἀπείρου. ἀδύνατον δὲ ἀπείρους αἰτίας παρασχεῖν· ἀδύνατον ἄρα διαβεβαιωτικῶς ἀποφῆναι, ὅτι ἐστὶ τὶ τινὸς 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.) — 3.5.24 focus

[24] Besides, since we are inquiring about the reality of Cause, it will certainly be necessary for him to produce a cause for the cause of the existence of Cause, and of that cause yet another, and so on ad infinitum. But it is impossible to produce causes infinite in number. It is impossible, therefore, to affirm positively that anything is Cause of anything.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. 5 αὐτοῦ prius om. T 8 add. T (ut dixi) 16 a—17 add. T (hii quidem igitur esse aliquid alicuius causam. hii autem non esse. hii vero destiterunt qui dicit igitur) 11 τι add. Τ 18 λέγειν om. T 21 δὲ MLT: καὶ EAB: δὲ καὶ Gen. 22 τι add. Bekk. ΙΙ νομίζει Bekk.: νομίζοι GT (estimetn) 24 τοῦ εἶναι Τ (essentie cause), Stephanus: τὸ εἶναι G

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.5.24

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