# Adversus mathematicos 93-4

Sextus Empiricus, Adversus mathematicos, <ΠΡΟΣ ΛΟΓΙΚΟΥΣ Β΄.>. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/sextus-empiricus/adversus-mathematicos/93-4

ἐπισυνάπτοντες δὲ ἡμεῖς τοῖς προκειμένοις κἀκεῖνο λέγωμεν ὧς, εἴπερ τὸ ἀληθὲς ἀξίωμά ἐστι, πάντως ἢ ἀπλοῦν ἐστιν ἀξίωμα ἢ οὐχ ἀπλοῦν ἢ καὶ ἀπλοῦν καὶ οὐχ ἀπλοῦν. τῶν γὰρ ἀξιωμάτων πρώτην σχεδὸν καὶ κυριωτάτην ἐκφέρουσι διαφορὰν οἱ διαλεκτικοὶ (Stoic. fr. II 205 Arn.) καθ’ ἣν τὰ μέν ἐστιν αὐτῶν ἀπλᾶ, τὰ δ’ οὐχ ἀπλᾶ. καὶ ἀπλᾶ μὲν ὅσα μήτ’ ἐξ ἑνὸς ἀξιώματος δὶς λαμβανομένου συνέστηκεν, μήτ’ ἐξ ἀξιωμάτων διαφερόντων <καὶ> διὰ ἢ τινῶν συνδέσμων, οἶον ‘‘ἡμέρα ἔστιν, [ἢ] νὺξ ἔστιν, Σωκράτης διαλέγεται”, πᾶν ὃ τῆς ὁμοίας ἐστὶν ἰδέας.

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Sextus Empiricus, Adversus mathematicos, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, Jürgen Mau. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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