Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.7.40

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[40] εὐμαρὴς μέντοι καὶ ὁ πρὸς τούτους λόγος. τὸ γὰρ σῶμα ἤτοι οὐδὲν παρὰ ταῦτα εἶναι λέξουσιν ἢ ἕτερόν τι παρὰ τὴν συνέλευσιν τῶν προειρημένων. καὶ ἔξωθεν μὲν τοῦ μήκους τε καὶ τοῦ πλάτους καὶ τοῦ βάθους καὶ τῆς ἀντιτυπίας οὐδὲν ἂν εἴη τὸ
σῶμα· εἰ δὲ ταῦτά ἐστι τὸ σῶμα, ἐὰν δείξῃ τις, ὅτι ἀνύπαρκτά ἐστιν, ἀναιροίη ἂν καὶ τὸ σῶμα· τὰ γὰρ ὅλα συναναιρεῖται τοῖς ἑαυτῶν πᾶσι μέρεσιν. ποικίλως μὲν οὖν ἔστι ταῦτα ἐλέγχειν· τὸ δὲ νῦν ἀρκέσει λέγειν, ὅτι εἰ ἔστι τὰ πέρατα, ἤτοι γραμμαί εἰσιν ἢ ἐπιφάνειαι ἢ σώματα.

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.) — 3.7.40 focus

[40] The answer, however, to these people is simple. For they will say either that Body is nothing more than these qualities, or that it is something else than the combination of the qualities already mentioned. Now apart from length and breadth and depth and solidity the Body would be nothing; but if these things are the Body, anyone who shall prove that they are unreal will likewise abolish the Body; for wholes are abolished along with the sum of their parts.

Now it is possible to disprove these dimensions in a variety of ways; but for the present it will be enough to say that if the Limits¹ exist, they are either lines or surfaces or bodies.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.7.40

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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