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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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