Ancient Greek Antilogic Is the Craft of Suspending Judgment

The Skeptics were particularly concerned with the sort of suffering that arises from being entangled in beliefs and judgments. Their technique was to engage any particular belief in a kind of cross-examination, and they practiced showing that, whatever reasons we might have for holding on to a particular belief, there were equally plausible and wei

as Socrates knew full well, his Athenian brothers did not regard the principles of rhetoric and the expression of truth to be independent of each other.