Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.8.56

[56] But, to pass over these problems, how do they explain the production of the compounds from the primary elements, ¹ when neither contact and touch nor mixture or blending ² has any existence at all? For that touch is nothing I showed a moment ago, when I was discussing the subsistence of Body; and that the method of Mixture is equally impossible on their own showing, I shall briefly demonstrate. For there is much argument about Mixture, and the rival views held by the Dogmatists ³ on the problem propounded are well-nigh endless; and hence we might straightway infer, along with the indeterminable controversy, the inapprehensibility of the problem. And we shall for the moment, owing to the design of our treatise, excuse ourselves from answering all their views in detail, deeming that the following remarks will amply suffice for the present.