Short Abstract: Eleven characteristics of plausible reasoning are specified by analyzing key examples of it recognized as important in ancient Greek skeptical philosophy using an AI model called the Carneades Argumentation System. In this paper, it is shown that there is a significant connection between the ancient recognition of plausible reasoning by the Greek skeptics and Sophists and the re...

Anthony A. Long’s recent book, Selfhood and Rationality in Ancient Greek Philosophy: From Heraclitus to Plotinus (2022), is a collection of fourteen essays that explore the themes selfhood rationality ancient philosophy. book provides an illuminating account vast tradition engaging tour begins with pre-Socratic thought ends Stoicism Neoplatonism seeking answers multifaceted question rational se...