The Stoics' Suspension of Judgment

The stoics have very high standards for belief. If there is any doubt, they counsel us to suspend judgment and withhold our assent. The stoics were almost asking for some one to come along and tell them that according to these standards, no one should ever believe anything. And this, of course, is precisely what archesilaus came along and told them. This hilites a difference between the scepticism of Archesilaus and the scepticism we usually encounter in contemporary philosophy. Nowadays, sceptics wonder whether we can even get to the state where we know something, and perhaps know that we know it.