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Sextus Empiricus
Against the Logicians, Books VII-VIII of Against the Learned Section 13
Section 459 of 927
Canonical reference 8.13
Ancient Greek
Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc
οἱ δὲ περὶ τὸν Ἐπίκουρον καὶ Στράτωνα τὸν φυσικὸν δύο μόνον ἀπολείποντες, σημαῖνόν τε καὶ τυγχάνον, φαίνονται τῆς δευτέρας ἔχεσθαι στάσεως καὶ περὶ τῇ φωνῇ τὸ ἀληθὲς καὶ ψεῦδος ἀπολείπειν. ἡ μὲν γὰρ ὑστάτη δόξα (λέγω δὲ τὴν τῷ κινήματι τῆς διανοίας τἀληθὲς ὑποτιθεμένην) σχολικῶς ἔοικε πλάττεσθαι.
English AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
Epicurus, Strato the physicist, and their followers, who retain only two things, what signifies and the object, appear to adhere to the second position and to locate truth and falsehood in the utterance. The last opinion, by which I mean the one that places truth in the movement of thought, seems to have been fabricated scholastically.
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
Les disciples d’Épicure et de Straton le physicien, qui ne retiennent que deux éléments, le signifiant et l’objet rencontré, paraissent adopter la deuxième position et placer le vrai et le faux dans le son vocal. Quant à la dernière opinion, je veux dire celle qui situe le vrai dans le mouvement de la pensée, elle paraît être une invention d’école.
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