Цепочка: от самомнения к весам

Магистральный скептический аргумент «Апологии» — от диагноза к девизу.

1. Диагноз: самомнение — природная болезнь — prezumptsiya-bolezn

   Presumption is our natural and original disease. The most wretched and frail of all creatures is man, and withal the proudest.
   — II.12, unit ii12.s1

2. Проверка на животных: граница проведена больным — koshka-montenya

   When I play with my cat who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?
   — II.12, unit ii12.s1

3. Знание не выполняет обещаний — chuma-mneniya-o-mudrosti

   The plague of man is the opinion of wisdom
   — II.12, unit ii12.s2

4. Таксономия философий: нашли / ненаходимо / ищем — pirronizm

   Whoever goes in search of any thing must come to this, either to say that he has found it, or that it is not to be found, or that he is yet upon the search.
   — II.12, unit ii12.s3

5. Регресс критерия: проверить нечем — koleso-instrumenta

   and here we are round again upon the wheel, and no further advanced.
   — II.12, unit ii12.s3

6. Фундамент плывёт: чувства — kritika-chuvstv

   The senses are the beginning and the end of human knowledge
   — II.12, unit ii12.s3

7. Онтология: сообщения с бытием нет — mir-v-techenii

   We have no communication with being, by reason that all human nature is always in the middle, betwixt being bom and dying
   — II.12, unit ii12.s3

8. Итоговая форма: вопрос на весах — chto-ya-znayu

   This fancy will be more certainly understood by interrogation: “What do I know?” as I bear it with the emblem of a balance.
   — II.12, unit ii12.s3

9. Финальная оговорка: подняться может только Бог — obshchaya-mera-cheloveka

   He shall be exalted, if God will lend him an extraordinary hand
   — II.12, unit ii12.s3

Принцип на выходе: derzhi-suzhdenie-na-vesah.