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Sextus Empiricus

Against the Professors, Books I-VI of Against the Learned Section 16

Section 16 of 757

Canonical reference 1.16

Ancient Greek

Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc

οὐ τοίνυν τὸ οὔτι διδάσκεται. κατὰ δὲ τὴν αὐτὴν ἀναλογίαν καὶ τὸ τὶ τῶν ἀδιδάκτων γενήσεται· εἰ γὰρ διὰ τοῦτο διδακτὸν ἔσται ὅτι ἔστιν, οὐδὲν ἀδίδακτον ἔσται, ᾧ ἕπεται τὸ μηδὲν εἶναι διδακτόν.

English AI-generated translation, non-official

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

Therefore the not-something is not taught. By the same reasoning, a something too will be among the unteachable things. For if it is teachable because it exists, nothing will be unteachable, from which it follows that nothing is teachable.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

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

Le non-quelque-chose n’est donc pas enseigné. Suivant le même raisonnement, le quelque-chose comptera lui aussi parmi les choses inenseignables. Car, s’il est enseignable parce qu’il est, rien ne sera inenseignable, d’où il suit que rien ne sera enseignable.

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