Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.7.53

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[53] πῶς οὖν ἀποδείξει τις,
ὅτι πρότερον τοῦτο τὸ ἀσώματον καταλαμβάνεται (φημὶ δὲ τὸν λόγον); εἰ μὲν γὰρ δι’ ἄλλου ἀσωμάτου, κἀκείνου ζητήσομεν τὴν ἀπόδειξιν τῆς καταλήψεως, καὶ μέχρις ἀπείρου· εἰ δὲ διὰ σώματος, ζητεῖται καὶ περὶ τῆς καταλήψεως τῶν σωμάτων· διὰ τίνος οὖν δείξομεν, ὅτι καταλαμβάνεται
τὸ σῶμα τὸ εἰς ἀπόδειξιν τῆς καταλήψεως τοῦ ἀσωμάτου λόγου λαμβανόμενον; εἰ μὲν διὰ σώματος, εἰς ἄπειρον ἐκβαλλόμεθα· εἰ δὲ δι᾿ ἀσωμάτου, εἰς τὸν διάλἒντασιν ¹ 132 ληλον τρόπον ἐκπίπτομεν. μένοντος οὖν οὕτως ἀκαταλήπτου
τοῦ λόγου, εἴπερ ἀσώματός ἐστιν, οὐκ ἂν δύναιτό τις λέγειν δι’ αὐτοῦ καταλαμβάνεσθαι τὸ ἀσώματον.

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.) — 3.7.53 focus

[53] How, then, is one to prove that this particular incorporeal (I mean reason) is previously apprehended? For if it is by means of another incorporeal, we shall ask for the proof of its apprehension also, and so on ad infinitum; whereas, if it is by means of a body, the apprehension of bodies is also in question; by what means, then, are we to prove that the body which is assumed in order to prove the apprehension of the incorporeal reason is itself apprehended? If by means of a body, we are plunged into infinite regress; while if we do so by means of an incorporeal, we are wrecked on circular reasoning. Reason, then, since it is incorporeal, remaining thus inapprehensible, no one will be able to say that by means of it the incorporeal is apprehended.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. 4 Kayser coll. Diog. Laert. VII 157. Doxogr. p. 406,4 Diels : ἔνστασιν GT (instantiam) || γίνηται Bekk.: γένηται G 5 suppl. T (sive secundum fluxus radiorum) 7 τὰ pr. om. L || περὶ L: πρὸς MEABT (ad) 9 καὶ οἱ χυμοὶ — 10 καὶ om. T 10 αὖ τῇ Bekk.: αὐτὴ G 12 add. T (sensu hec apprehendi)
καταλαμβάνεσθαι Τ (apprehendi) : λαμβάνεσθαι G
γὰρ G: δὲ T (autem) 17 τι ἀσ. MEABT (aliquid incorporeum): τι ἀσ. τι L 20 ἀποδείξει Τ (demonstrabit): ἐπιδείξει G 23 post καὶ add. EAB τοῦτο 28 ἐμβαλλ. AB (eicimur T) vide ad p. 127, 18

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