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Robin Reames

Associate Professor, English, University of Illinois at Chicago

Robin Reames is associate professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Seeming and Being in Plato’s Rhetorical Theory (2018) and The Ancient Art of Thinking For Yourself (forthcoming, March 2024).

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Written by Robin Reames

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Knowledge and reason

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Ancient Greek antilogic is the craft of suspending judgment

Sophists like Protagoras used the rhetoric of antilogic to escape from the illusion of truth and make room for uncertainty

by Robin Reames