Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.8.58

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[58] εἰ δὲ αἱ μὲν ποιότητες ἁπλῶς παρακεῖσθαι λεχθεῖεν ἀλλήλαις, αἱ δὲ οὐσίαι μίγνυσθαι, καὶ οὕτως ἄτοπον ἂν εἴη τὸ λεγόμενον· οὐ γὰρ κεχωρισμένων τῶν ποιοτήτων τῶν ἐν ταῖς κράσεσιν ἀντιλαμβανόμεθα, ἀλλ᾿ ὡς μιᾶς ἀπὸ τῶν
κιρναμένων ἀποτελουμένης αἰσθανόμεθα. εἰ δὲ τὰς μὲν ποιότητας μίγνυσθαι λέγοι τις, τὰς δὲ οὐσίας μηδαμῶς, ἀδύνατα λέξει· ἡ γὰρ τῶν ποιοτήτων ὑπόστασις ἐν ταῖς οὐσίαις ἐστίν, διόπερ γελοῖον ἂν εἴη λέγειν, ὧς αἱ μὲν ποιότητες χωρισθεῖσαι τῶν οὐσιῶν [καὶ] ἰδίᾳ μίγνυνταί που
ἀλλήλαις, ἄποιοι δὲ αἱ οὐσίαι χωρὶς ὑπολείπονται.

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.) — 3.8.58 focus

[58] And if it should be said that the qualities are simply juxtaposed and the substances blended, even so the statement would be absurd; for we do not perceive the qualities in the mixtures as separate objects but as a single sense- impression produced by the mixed things. And anyone who should assert that the qualities are blended, but the substances not, would be asserting the impossible; for the reality of the qualities resides in the substances, so that it would be ridiculous to assert that the qualities by themselves, in separation from the substances, are somehow blended with one another, while the substances are left apart void of quality.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.8.58

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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