  There are further problems with the NRNB view, separate from the issues of interpretation mentioned above. For one, it narrowly restricts the skeptic to a life of unreflective reaction (see sect. 5.1), and therefore does not seem compatible with the patterns of rationality and inquiry that Arcesilaus engaged with. Its narrow restriction on the scope of skeptical action is also overly dogmatic: were the NRNB view true, it seems implausible Arcesilaus would see the need for a theory of skeptical action, let alone use the Stoic model of non-rational animals.