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Sextus Empiricus
Against the Physicists, Books IX-X of Against the Learned Section 308
Section 748 of 791
Canonical reference 10.308
Ancient Greek
Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc
Τοιοῦτος μὲν καὶ ὁ Πλάτων’· ἔνεστι δὲ καὶ ὧδε συνερωτᾶν. εἰ ἔστι τι ἀριθμός, ὅτε παρατίθεταί τι ἑτέρῳ οἷον τῇ μονάδι ἡ μονάς, τότε ἢ προσγίνεταί τι ταῖς συνελθούσαις μονάσιν ἢ ἀπογίνεται τῶν συνελθουσῶν ἢ οὔτε προσγίνεταί τι αὐταῖς οὔτε ἀπογίνεται. ἀλλ’ εἰ μήτε προσγίνεταί τι αὐταῖς μήτε ἀπογίνεται αὐτῶν, οὐκ ἔσται δυὰς κατὰ τὴν παράθεσιν τῆς ἑτέρας τῇ ἑτέρᾳ, ὧς οὐδὲ πρὶν τῆς συνόδου ἐτύγχανεν.
English AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
Such, then, is Plato’s argument. But one may also frame the following series of questions. If number is anything, then when one thing is set beside another, as one unit beside another, either something accrues to the units that have come together, or something is lost from those that have come together, or nothing accrues to them and nothing is lost. But if nothing accrues to them and nothing is lost from them, there will be no dyad through the juxtaposition of one with the other, just as there was none before their conjunction.
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
Tel est aussi l’argument de Platon. Mais on peut encore poser conjointement la question de la manière suivante. S’il existe un nombre, lorsque quelque chose est placé à côté d’une autre chose, par exemple une monade à côté d’une monade, alors ou bien quelque chose s’ajoute aux monades réunies, ou bien quelque chose est retranché des monades réunies, ou bien rien ne leur est ajouté ni retranché. Mais si rien ne leur est ajouté ni retranché, il n’y aura pas de dyade par la juxtaposition de l’une à l’autre, pas plus qu’il n’y en avait avant leur réunion.
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