Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.8.61

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[61] δυνατὸν
δὲ οὕτω κατὰ μίαν κοτύλην ἐπεμβάλλοντα καὶ ὁμοίως συλλογιζόμενον συνάγειν, ὅτι αἱ εἴκοσιν ὁρώμεναι τοῦ μίγματος κοτύλαι δισμύριαί που καὶ πρὸς ὀφείλουσιν εἶναι ὅσον ἐπὶ τῇ ὑποθέσει τοῦ τρόπου τῆς κράσεως, αἱ δὲ αὐταὶ καὶ δύο μόναι· ὅπερ ἀπεμφάσεως ὑπερβολὴν οὐκ ἀπολέλοιπεν.
οὐκοῦν ἄτοπός ἐστι καὶ αὕτη ἡ ὑπόθεσις τῆς κράσεως.

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.) — 3.8.61 focus

[61] And by thus pouring in a cup at a time and pursuing the same argument it is possible to infer that the twenty cups seen in the blend must be twenty thousand and more, according to the theory of Mixture assumed, and at the same time only two—a conclusion which reaches the very height of incongruity. Wherefore this theory of Mixture also is absurd.

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