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our state [of mind]. So when the sceptic says 'I determine nothing' he
is saying this: 'I am now in such a state that I neither posit nor abolish
dogmatically any of the matters now under investigation'. He says this
simply as an indication of what appears to him concerning the objects
before him, and not
just explaining what state he is in.
Ch. xxiv On the Utterance 'All Things are Undetermined'
- And indeterminacy is an intellectual state in accordance with
which we neither abolish nor posit any of the matters being dogmatically
investigated, i.e., any of the non-evident things. So when the sceptic says
'all things are undetermined' the word 'are' is used in place of 'appear
to him'; 'all' does not mean existing things but [only] those of the non-
apparent matters being dogmatically investigated which he has discussed;
and 'undetermined' means not being more or less trustworthy than their
opposites or generally than things with which they are in conflict. 199.
And just as he who says '[I] walk'^29 implicitly says 'I walk', so too he
who says 'all things are undetermined' signifies along with it (in our
view) 'relative to me' or 'as it appears to me'. Thus the statement is like
this: 'All of the matters which are dogmatically investigated which I have
considered seem to me to be such that none of them is more or less
trustworthy than what is in conflict with it.'
Ch. xxv On the Utterance 'All Things are Ungraspable'
- We are also affected similarly when we say 'all things are ungrasp-
able'. For we give a similar explanation of the word 'all' and we also
understand the words 'to me', so that the statement is like this: 'All of
the non-apparent matters being dogmatically investigated which I have
scrutinized appear to me to be ungraspable'. And this is not the position
of someone making a firm commitment that the matters being investigated
by the dogmatists are of such a nature as to be ungraspable, but rather
[the position] of someone who is declaring his own state; he says that in
this state he thinks, 'up until the present time I have not yet grasped
any of those matters, because of the equal weight of the opposing [posi-
tions]; hence all the arguments advanced to overturn [our position] seem
to me to be unrelated to what we actually declare'.
Ch. xxvi On the Utterances 'I Fail to Grasp' and 'I Do Not
Grasp'
- And the utterances 'I fail to grasp' and 'I do not grasp' also reveal
a private state [of mind] in which the sceptic avoids, for the present, - In Greek the verb's ending indicates that the subject is the first person singular.