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Sextus Empiricus

Against the Professors, Books I-VI of Against the Learned Section 158

Section 158 of 757

Canonical reference 1.158

Ancient Greek

Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc

παρʼ ἣν αἰτίαν λοιπόν, εἰ μήτε ἡ φωνὴ λόγος ἐστὶ μήτε τὸ σημαινόμενον ὑπʼ αὐ- τῆς ἀσώματον λεκτόν, παρὰ δὲ ταῦτα νοεῖν οὐδὲν ἐνδέχε- ται, οὐδέν ἐστι λόγος. Ἔστω δὲ νῦν καὶ ὁ λόγος καὶ μέρη τούτου ὁπόσα θέ- λουσιν οἱ γραμματικοὶ ὑπάρχειν. ἀλλʼ εἰπάτωσάν γε ἡμῖν πῶς τὸν λόγον μερίζουσιν. Περὶ μερισμοῦ

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

For this reason, then, if neither the utterance is discourse nor what it signifies an incorporeal sayable, and nothing besides these can be conceived, discourse is nothing. But let discourse now exist, and let it have as many parts as the grammarians wish. Still, let them tell us how they divide discourse.

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

Pour cette raison, donc, si ni la voix n’est discours, ni ce qu’elle signifie un dicible incorporel, et s’il n’est possible de concevoir rien en dehors de cela, le discours n’est rien. Mais admettons maintenant que le discours existe, ainsi que toutes les parties que les grammairiens veulent lui attribuer. Qu’ils nous disent alors comment ils divisent le discours.

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