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Sextus Empiricus

Against the Logicians, Books VII-VIII of Against the Learned Section 84

Section 530 of 927

Canonical reference 8.84

Ancient Greek

Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc

οὐκ ἄρα ἔστι τι ἀξίωμα. καίτοι τί περὶ ὅλου τοῦ ἀξιώματος διέξιμεν τοῦ ‘‘Σωκράτης ἔστιν”, ὅτε καὶ αὐτὸ κατ’ ἰδίαν τὸ πτωτικὸν τὸ Σωκράτης οὐ δύναται ἐν ὑπάρξει νοεῖσθαι διὰ τὴν αὐτὴν αἰτίαν; φημὶ δὲ διὰ τὸ μὴ συνυπάρχειν τὰ συστατικὰ αὐτοῦ μόρια.

English AI-generated translation, non-official

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

Therefore no proposition exists. Yet why should we discuss the whole proposition “Socrates exists,” when even the inflected expression “Socrates,” taken by itself, cannot be conceived as existing for the same reason? I mean because its constituent parts do not coexist.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

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

Il n’existe donc aucune proposition. Et pourtant, pourquoi examinerions-nous toute la proposition « Socrate existe », alors que le terme casuel « Socrate », pris isolément, ne peut lui-même être conçu comme existant, pour la même raison ? Je veux dire parce que les éléments qui le constituent ne coexistent pas.

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