Hellenistic Philosophy Introductory
Academic Scepticism 281 or zeal for victory, but because of the obscurity of the very matters that led Socrates to a confession ...
Sextus Empiricus: Physics 377 would be either ungenerable, like the atom ofEpicurus, or generable, like a man, and either visibl ...
282 l//-20 of his on Suspension of Assent and the things I am about to say are taken from book one. According to Carneades, the ...
378 ///-45 to ///-46 coming to be is a process leading to existence. Therefore, neither is a body the cause of the non-bodily no ...
Academic Scepticism 283 Epicurus and one from you [Lucullus], perception with the senses and grasping are eliminated. What is Ep ...
Sextus Empiricus: Physics 379 and arrive at other harbours very far away from where they started? And how will he who abolishes ...
284 l/1-20 to /l/-22 ingly. Indeed, since we believe that he who withholds assent from every- thing is nevertheless moved and do ...
380 /l/-46 forth, because of the nature of this treatise, along with what appears to us to be the [proper] judgement on them. S ...
Pyrrho 285 school it might be as though by a storm, they then cling to it as though to a rock. 9. For I would approve of their s ...
Sextus Empiricus: Physics 381 impossible to discover a first point among the infinite [divisions], starting from which that whic ...
286 l//-22 the gymnasium of Elis there are preserved some fair paintings of his of torch-bearers. 63. He isolated himself and li ...
382 ///-46 to ///-47 These arguments, then, and even additional ones, are offered by those who abolish locomotion. We, however, ...
Pyrrho 287 Democritus and after him, Homer, marvelling at the latter and saying continually, "As is the generation of leaves, so ...
Sextus Empiricus: Physics 383 tence of place, they proceed themselves to establish in a variety of ways that place is non-existe ...
288 l//-22 out qualities, so that he says,^15 "cold by custom, hot by custom; atoms and void in truth," and again, "in truth we ...
384 /l/-47 place does not exist either. If, then, the dimension of place is discovered in none of the aforementioned modes, it i ...
Pyrrho 289 times they are used positively and negatively, as when we say "virtue benefits more than it harms," we signify that v ...
Sextus Empiricus: Physics 385 possible to conceive of any other alternatives besides these, place is not generated. And if it is ...
290 l//-22 It is reasonable, then, that animals whose eyes are different should receive different appearances. So, for example, ...
386 ///-47 to ///-48 Some say that the following arguments too are equally effective against time. If time exists, either it is ...
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