skepticism – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
skepticism
n.
tendency to doubt, tendency to question the validity of claims, uncertainty; philosophical doctrine which maintains that true knowledge is unobtainable or uncertain; tendency to doubt religious principles
Skepticism
Skepticism or
scepticism (see
spelling differences) is generally any questioning attitude towards unempirical knowledge or opinions/beliefs stated as facts, or
doubt regarding claims that are taken for granted elsewhere.
skepticism
Noun
1. doubt about the truth of something
(synonym) incredulity, disbelief, mental rejection
(hypernym) doubt, uncertainty, incertitude, dubiety, doubtfulness, dubiousness
2. the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge
(synonym) agnosticism, scepticism
(hypernym) unbelief, disbelief
Skepticism
(n.)
The doctrine that no fact or principle can be certainly known; the tenet that all knowledge is uncertain; Pyrrohonism; universal doubt; the position that no fact or truth, however worthy of confidence, can be established on philosophical grounds; critical investigation or inquiry, as opposed to the positive assumption or assertion of certain principles.
(n.)
An undecided, inquiring state of mind; doubt; uncertainty.
(n.)
A doubting of the truth of revelation, or a denial of the divine origin of the Christian religion, or of the being, perfections, or truth of God.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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