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Sextus Empiricus

Against the Logicians, Books VII-VIII of Against the Learned Section 68

Section 514 of 927

Canonical reference 8.68

Ancient Greek

Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc

καὶ οὐκ ἔχουσι λέγειν οἱ ἀπὸ τῆς Στοᾶς, τίνες τε ταῖς ἀληθείαις καταληπτικαί εἰσι καὶ ἀπὸ ὑποκειμένων καὶ κατ’ αὐτὰ τὰ ὑποκείμενα γίγνονται, καὶ τίνες οὔκ εἰσι τοιαῦται, καθάπερ διὰ πλειόνων ἔμπροσθεν ἐδείξαμεν (l 426 sqq.).

English AI-generated translation, non-official

Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11

and the Stoics cannot say which impressions are genuinely apprehensive and arise both from existing objects and in accordance with those objects, and which are not of this kind, as we demonstrated at greater length above (I 426 ff.).

French AI-generated translation, non-official

Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11

et les tenants du Portique ne peuvent dire quelles représentations sont véritablement compréhensives, puisqu’elles proviennent d’objets sous-jacents et sont conformes à ces objets mêmes, ni lesquelles ne sont pas telles, comme nous l’avons montré plus haut avec davantage de développements (I, 426 et suiv.).

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