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Sextus Empiricus

Against the Professors, Books I-VI of Against the Learned Section 49

Section 632 of 757

Canonical reference 5.49

Ancient Greek

Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc

Οἱ μὲν οὖν πλείους διὰ τοιούτων τινῶν ἀκροβολισμῶν πειρῶνται τὴν Χαλδαϊκὴν μέθοδον ἀναιρεῖν· ἡμεῖς δέ κατὰ τὸν ὅμοιον τῆς ἐπιχειρήσεως τρόπον τὰς ἀρχὰς καὶ ὥσπερ στοιχεῖα ταύτης κινήσαντες ἕξομεν 〈σὺν〉 αὐταῖς καὶ τὴν τῶν λοιπῶν θεωρημάτων σύστασιν ἠθετημένην.

English AI-generated translation, non-official

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

Most people, then, try to abolish the Chaldean method through skirmishes of this sort. But we, following our usual manner of argument, shall overturn its principles and elements, as it were, and thereby have rejected the structure of its remaining theorems together with them.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

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

La plupart tentent ainsi de renverser la méthode chaldéenne par quelques escarmouches de ce genre. Pour notre part, suivant la même manière d’argumenter, nous ébranlerons ses principes et, pour ainsi dire, ses éléments. Avec eux, nous aurons aussi invalidé la constitution de tous les autres théorèmes.

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