"Skeptic" redirects here. For magazines, see Skeptic and The Skeptic In ordinary usage, skepticism or scepticism ( skeptomai, to look about, to consider; see also spelling differences) refers to · an attitude of doubt or a disposition to incredulity either in general or toward a particular object, · the doctrine that true knowledge or knowledge in a particular area is uncertain, or · the method of suspended judgment, systematic doubt, or criticism that is characteristic of skeptics (Merriam?Webster). In philosophy, skepticism refers more specifically to any one of several propositions. These include propositions about · an inquiry · the limitations of knowledge, · a method of obtaining knowledge through systematic doubt and continual testing, · the arbitrariness, relativity, or subjectivity of moral values, · a met

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