Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.5.27

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[27] καθὸ πρός τι ἐστίν, συνυπάρχειν καὶ συννοεῖσθαι ἀλλήλοις. ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ
συνυφίστασθαι· εἰ γὰρ ἀποτελεστικὸν αὐτοῦ ἐστιν, τὸ δὲ γινόμενον ὑπὸ ὄντος ἤδη γίνεσθαι χρή, πρότερον δεῖ τὸ αἴτιον γενέσθαι αἴτιον, εἶθ’ οὕτως ποιεῖν τὸ ἀποτέλεσμα. εἰ οὖν τὸ αἴτιον μήτε προὑφίσταται τοῦ ἀποτελέσματος αὐτοῦ μήτε συνυφίσταται τούτῳ, ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ τὸ <τὸ ἀποτέλεσμα>
πρὸ αὐτοῦ γίνεται, μήποτε οὐδὲ ὑποστάσεως ὅλως μετέχει.

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.) — 3.5.27 focus

[27] in so far as they are relative, co-exist with each other and are conceived together. Nor, again, can it subsist along with its effect; for if it is productive of the effect, and what comes into existence must so come by the agency of what exists already, the Cause must have become causal first, and this done, then produces its effect. If, then, the Cause neither subsists before its effect, nor subsists along with it, nor does the effect precede the Cause, it would seem that it has no substantial existence at all.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.5.27

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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