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Sextus Empiricus
Against the Logicians, Books VII-VIII of Against the Learned Section 178
Section 624 of 927
Canonical reference 8.178
Ancient Greek
Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc
καὶ τὸ πάντων δεινότατον, ὅτι μεταπέπτωκεν ἡ ὑπόσχεσις αὐτοῦ, εἴγε ὑπισχνεῖται μὲν ἐκκαλυπτικὸν ἔσεσθαί τινος ἑτέρου, ἀνάπαλιν δὲ αὐτὸ νῦν εὕρηται χρῇζον ἑτέρου τοῦ ἐκκαλύψοντος· εἰ γὰρ πᾶν τὸ διάφωνον ἄδηλόν ἐστι, τὸ δὲ ἄδηλον ἐκ σημείου ληπτόν, πάντως καὶ τὸ σημεῖον διαφωνούμενον δεήσεταί τινος σημείου πρὸς παράστασιν ὧς ἄδηλον.
English AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
Most extraordinary of all, its promise has been reversed. For although it promises to reveal something else, it has now itself been found to need something else to reveal it. If everything disputed is nonevident, and what is nonevident is grasped from a sign, then the sign too, being disputed, will necessarily require some sign to establish it as nonevident.
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
Et le plus terrible est que sa promesse s’est inversée. Il promettait en effet de révéler quelque autre chose, mais voici qu’au contraire il a lui-même besoin d’une autre chose pour le révéler. Car si tout ce qui fait l’objet d’un désaccord est non manifeste, et si le non-manifeste se saisit au moyen d’un signe, le signe lui-même, puisqu’il fait l’objet d’un désaccord, aura nécessairement besoin d’un autre signe pour être établi comme non manifeste.
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