Skepticism, History Of Skepticism (also spelled "Scepticism") is the philosophical attitude of doubting knowledge claims set forth in various areas. Skeptics have challenged the adequacy or reliability of these claims by asking what they...

Ancient Skepticism Tradition recognizes two schools of ancient skepticism: the Academics and the Pyrrhonists. The ancient Greek term "skeptic" was used by the Pyrrhonists to describe themselves. They denied that it described the...

Skepticism, Contemporary Skepticism regarding a subject matter is the view that knowledge about the subject matter is not possible. Many subject matters have come under skeptical attack. It has been argued, for example, that it is not possible to...

the philosophical attitude of doubting knowledge claims set forth in various areas. Skeptics have challenged the adequacy or reliability of these claims by asking what they are based upon or what they actually establish. They have raised the question...

Skepticism has a long history that includes multiple meanings and in the early twenty-first century has complex ethical implications for science and technology. It plays an important role within science and technology but also can be applied to the...

. Any view involving doubt about whether something exists, or about whether we can know something, or about whether we are justified in arguing in certain ways. Throughout the ages many philosophers have held that unless we know some things for certain...

This word is rarely used in its technical philosophical sense, referring to Pyrrho and his followers in Greek antiquity who doubted the possibility of real knowledge of any kind. It is more usually used in the general sense of one who is unwilling...

Philosophical doubting of knowledge claims in various areas. From ancient to modern times, skeptics have challenged accepted views in metaphysics, science, morals, and religion. Pyrrhon of Elis (&circa; 360–272 &BC;) sought mental peace by...

1. A Greek school of thought that maintained that reality is unknowable, so that all knowledge should be treated accordingly. 2. Broadly, that certain knowledge might be sought but it cannot be...

Better to be too credulous than too skeptical. (Chinese) Skeptics are never deceived....

In ordinary usage, skepticism or scepticism (Greek: skeptomai, to look about, to consider; see also spelling differences) refers...