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Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism

by Mary Mills Patrick

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Chapter XXV The Formula “Every Thing Is Incomprehensible”

We treat the formula “Every thing is incomprehensible” in the same way. For “every thing” we interpret in the same way as above, and we supply the words “to me” so that what we say is this: “As far as I have inspected the unknown things which are dogmatically examined, it appears to me that every thing is incomprehensible.” This is not, however, to affirm that the things which are examined by the Dogmatists are of such a nature as to be necessarily incomprehensible, but one expresses his own feeling in saying “I see that I have not thus far comprehended any of those things because of the equilibrium of the things that are placed in opposition to each other.” Whence it seems to me that every thing that has been brought forward to dispute our formulae has fallen wide of the mark.

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