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Sextus Empiricus

Against the Physicists, Books IX-X of Against the Learned Section 341

Section 341 of 791

Canonical reference 9.341

Ancient Greek

Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc

λείπεται ἄρα λέγειν τὰ μέρη εἶναι τὸ ὃλον. ἀλλ’ εἰ τὰ μέρη ἐστὶν ὅλον, ἤτοι πάντα τὰ μέρη ἐστὶν ὅλον ἢ τινὰ τῶν μερῶν ἤ τὶ τούτων. καὶ τὶ μὲν τῶν μερῶν οὐκ ἂν εἴη ὅλον· οὐ γὰρ δή γε ἡ κεφαλὴ τἀνθρώπου ὅλος ἐστὶν ἄνθρωπος, οὐδὲ ὁ τράχηλος ἢ ἡ χεὶρ ἢ ἄλλο τι τῶν τοιούτων.

English AI-generated translation, non-official

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

It remains, therefore, to say that the parts are the whole. But if the parts are the whole, either all the parts are the whole, some of the parts are, or one of them is. Yet one of the parts could not be the whole, for surely a human being's head is not the whole human being, nor is the neck, hand, or any other such part.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

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

Il reste donc à dire que les parties sont le tout. Mais si les parties sont le tout, ou bien toutes les parties sont le tout, ou certaines parties le sont, ou une seule d’entre elles. Une seule partie ne saurait être le tout ; car la tête de l’homme n’est assurément pas l’homme entier, ni son cou, ni sa main, ni aucune autre partie de ce genre.

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