But the fact that in modern Greek the ancient terminologies of thought ( noêsis [νόησις] ) and reflection ( skepsis [σϰέψις] ) have been fused together leads to more palpable difficulties. Skepsis, a concept discussed by the Skeptical school, leads to paradoxes in modern texts, when we speak, for example, of “the thought of the Skeptics”( η σϰέψη τῶν σϰεπτιϰών ) or the “thinkers of reflection” ( ή τῶν στοχαστών τῆς σϰέψης ). An analogous fusion took place with the semantics of the activity of contemplating ( stochazomai [στοχάζομαι] ). Whereas in antiquity, stochazomai means “to aim,” “tend toward,” or even “to seek” and “to conjecture,” in modern Greek it means both the common activity of reflecting as well as the more elevating one of thinking, “meditation” ( stochasmos [στοχασμός] ). In the literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ( Solomos [1798–1857] to Palamas [1859–1943] ), stochazomai is used to indicate thought—whence the use of stochastis [στοχαστής] to mean “thinker.” In addition, the activity of reasoning and calculating ( logizomai [λογίζομαι], ypologizo [υπολογίζω], logariazo [λογαϱιάζω] ) is often confused with the activity of thinking ( skeptomai [σϰέπτομαι] ) as well.