Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.6.35

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[35] εἰ τοίνυν, ἴνα μὲν ἡ ἀπόδειξις ἡ
προκρίνουσά τινα στάσιν ἀληθὴς εἶναι δειχθῇ , δεῖ τὸ κριτήριον τήριον αὐτῆς ἀποδεδεῖχθαι, ἵνα δὲ τὸ κριτήριον ἀποδειχθῇ, δεῖ τὴν ἀπόδειξιν αὐτοῦ προκεκρίσθαι, ὁ διάλληλος εὑρίσκεται τρόπος, ὃς οὐκ ἐάσει προβαίνειν τὸν λόγον, τῆς μὲν ἀποδείξεως ἀεὶ κριτηρίου δεομένης ἀποδεδειγμένου, τοῦ
κριτηρίου δὲ ἀποδείξεως κεκριμένης.

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.) — 3.6.35 focus

[35] If, then, in order to show the truth of the proof which prefers any one view, its criterion must be proved, and to prove the criterion in turn its proof must be pre-established, the argument is found to be the circular one which will not allow the reasoning to go forward, since the proof keeps always requiring a proved criterion, and the criterion an approved proof.

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