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Sextus Empiricus

Against the Physicists, Books IX-X of Against the Learned Section 294

Section 734 of 791

Canonical reference 10.294

Ancient Greek

Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc

εἰ δὲ πολυμερής ἐστιν ἡ τοῦ ἑνὸς ἰδέα καὶ ἕκαστον τῶν ἀριθμητῶν ἑκάστου μέρους αὐτῆς μετείληφεν, πρῶτον μὲν ἕκαστον τῶν ὄντων οὐ τῆς τοῦ ἑνὸς ἰδέας ἔσται μετειληφός, ἀλλὰ μέρους αὐτῆς, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο οὐκέτι γενήσεται ἕν· ὧς γὰρ τὸ μέρος ἀνθρώπου οὐκ ἔστιν ἄνθρωπος καὶ τὸ μέρος τῆς λέξεως οὐκ ἔστι λέξις, οὕτω τὸ μέρος τῆς τοῦ ἑνὸς ἰδέας οὐκ ἔσται ἡ τοῦ ἑνὸς ἰδέα, ἴνα καὶ τὸ μετεσχηκὸς αὐτῆς γένηται ἕν.

English AI-generated translation, non-official

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

But if the Form of the one has many parts and each countable thing has participated in one of its parts, then, first, each existing thing will not have participated in the Form of the one, but in a part of it, and therefore will no longer become one. For just as a part of a human being is not a human being, and part of a word is not a word, so a part of the Form of the one will not be the Form of the one, so that what participates in it should become one.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

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

Mais si l’Idée de l’un comporte de nombreuses parties et si chaque chose dénombrable participe à l’une de ces parties, d’abord chaque être ne participera pas à l’Idée de l’un, mais à une partie de celle-ci, et pour cette raison ne deviendra plus un. En effet, de même qu’une partie d’homme n’est pas un homme et qu’une partie de mot n’est pas un mot, une partie de l’Idée de l’un ne sera pas l’Idée de l’un, de manière à rendre un ce qui y participe.

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