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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Philosophic doubt; skeptical philosophy.
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Two of the characteristic features of this general teaching of the ancients can be said to be the teaching that the lover of wisdom is a composite of both wisdom/knowledge and folly/ignorance, and that the lover of wisdom unceasingly engages in enquiry zetesis; skepsis...
Archive 2009-06-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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Two of the characteristic features of this general teaching of the ancients can be said to be the teaching that the lover of wisdom is a composite of both wisdom/knowledge and folly/ignorance, and that the lover of wisdom unceasingly engages in enquiry zetesis; skepsis...
Kelamuni unimpressed by Sri Aurobindo Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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The TV news shows reported this without comment and apparently without skepsis because their text news headlines stated that Putin is willing to give up nuclear weapons.
Anti Americanism: The strongest glue known to mankind. « Sigmund, Carl and Alfred 2009
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Orth-o-skepsis (orth, plus the Greek skepsis: examination, doubt, skeptical philosophy).
Tara Stiles: Orthoskepsis: When Too Much Thinking Is A Bad Thing 2009
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After noting Carter's earlier skepsis concerning the viability of elections in unstable Iraq, Hindrocket bizarrely concludes: Jimmy Carter isn't just misguided or ill-informed.
Archive 2005-02-01 2005
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After noting Carter's earlier skepsis concerning the viability of elections in unstable Iraq, Hindrocket bizarrely concludes: Jimmy Carter isn't just misguided or ill-informed.
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All manner of doubt, inquiry, [Greek: skepsis] as it is named, about all manner of objects, dwells in every reasonable mind.
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838
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The university must not be a locus of solidification of rigid paradigms, of canons of knowledge, but of plastic modelling, of the risk of thought, of skepsis and polemos, and at the same time of the respect of the common rhythm of thinking.
Eurozine articles Boyan Manchev 2010
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The awareness that the irreducible exterior inhabits the heart of knowledge is the critical awareness that allows not only skepsis and polemos, but also any invention: it is the inherent rhythm of thinking.
Eurozine articles Boyan Manchev 2010
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Vestlige regeringer og en bred alliance af aktivistgrupper har ud trykt skepsis over for initiativet.
_Politik 2009
bilby commented on the word skepsis
Philosophic doubt as to the objective reality of phenomena.
April 6, 2008