The reason is, I think, my awareness that my remarks last quarter on pacifism may well have served to confirm the opinion of some that my tendency to skepticism and dissent gets us nowhere, and that I am simply too old to hope.

A certain skepticism about the coming of Americans is to be expected in many quarters.

Also known as Lokāyata, it is a system of Hindu philosophy that assumes various forms of philosophical skepticism and religious indifference. It is named after its founder, Cārvāka, author of the Bārhaspatya-sūtras.

It is thought that he represents a link between the atomism of Democritus, and the skepticism of Pyrrho.

::" The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of skepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.

::" For here is the chief and most confounding objection to excessive skepticism, that no durable good can ever result from it ; while it remains in its full force and vigor.

this introduces the possibility of another kind of skepticism: since our understanding of causality is that the same effect can be produced by multiple causes, there is a lack of determinacy about what one is really perceiving.

The prevailing modern view is that Herodotus generally did a remarkable job in his Historia, but that some of his specific details ( particularly troop numbers and dates ) should be viewed with skepticism.

There is little sympathy by the Chinese public for corrupt officials who get caught up in the system, but also skepticism regarding its effectiveness.

Furthermore, in the Enchiridion Augustine attempts to refute skepticism by stating, " y not positively affirming that they are alive, the skeptics ward off the appearance of error in themselves, yet they do make errors simply by showing themselves alive ; one cannot err who is not alive.

One view is the objection that there is very little or no knowledge at all — skepticism.

" The apparent impossibility of completing an infinite chain of reasoning is thought by some to support skepticism.

At the heart of this area of study is skepticism, with many approaches involved trying to disprove some particular form of it.

Environmental skepticism is an umbrella term that describes those that argue that particular claims put forward by environmentalists and environmental scientists who support the first are false or exaggerated, along with those who are critical of environmentalism in general.

" However the Times also reflected widespread skepticism as to whether the forward pass could be effectively integrated into the game: " There has been no team that has proved that the forward pass is anything but a doubtful, dangerous play to be used only in the last extremity.

At least one work of fiction, the film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, uses Gaia philosophy as a central point to the plot, and may arguably represent a fictional parallel to Sir James Lovelock in the character of Dr. Cid, who is met with skepticism from the scientific and social community when he promotes the idea of a " living Earth ".

" Past life regression, meanwhile, is often viewed with skepticism.

This skepticism is not limited to composers but also to many notable musicologists and critics: Robert Schmitz said " The public, imbued with Wagnerian aesthetics, quickly exchanged study of these works for a rapid and easy label, which if thoughtfully applied to a limited one percent of Debussy's works, might have been ingenious, but which poured on indiscriminately, has resulted for decades in blurred, vague, sloppy, wrongly pedaled, innocuous performances of Debussy's works.

One way to use this in a response to skepticism is to apply the same strategy to the terms used in a skeptical argument in the following way ( DeRose, 1999 ):

Another attempt to use externalism to refute skepticism is done by Brueckner and Warfield.

* Most moral epistemologies, of course, posit that moral knowledge is somehow possible, as opposed to moral skepticism.

It lays out ten ideals: Free inquiry as opposed to censorship and imposition of belief ; separation of church and state ; the ideal of freedom from religious control and from jingoistic government control ; ethics based on critical intelligence rather than that deduced from religious belief ; moral education ; religious skepticism ; reason ; a belief in science and technology as the best way of understanding the world ; evolution ; and education as the essential method of building humane, free, and democratic societies.

He made significant contributions to the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language, and is perhaps best known for his views on meta-ethics, especially his defence of moral skepticism.

Dollimore asserts the play is best understood as “ subversive black camp ” insofar as it “ celebrates the artificial and the delinquent ; it delights in a play full of innuendo, perversity and subversion ... through parody it declares itself radically skeptical of ideological policing though not independent of the social reality which such skepticism simultaneously discloses ” In Dollimore ’ s view, earlier critical approaches, which either emphasize the play ’ s absolute decadence or find an ultimate affirmation of traditional morality in the play, are insufficient because they fail to take into account this vital strain of social and ideological critique running throughout the tragedy.

He is best known for his work in Florida, Havana and at the Panama Canal in abating the transmission of yellow fever and malaria by controlling the mosquitoes that carry them at a time when there was considerable skepticism and opposition to such measures.

Doubts about the possibility of definite truth have been expressed since ancient times, for instance in the skepticism of Pyrrho.

In a commentary published in The Auk in January 2006, ornithologist Jerome Jackson expressed his skepticism of the Ivory-bill evidence:

From the end of World War II until 1971, when John Rawls published A Theory of Justice, political philosophy declined in the Anglo-American academic world, as analytic philosophers expressed skepticism about the possibility that normative judgments had cognitive content, and political science turned toward statistical methods and behavioralism.

Paine acknowledged that he was indebted to his Quaker background for his skepticism, but the Quakers ' esteem for plain speaking, a value expressed both explicitly and implicitly in The Age of Reason, influenced his writing even more.

When his new landlords expressed skepticism about the network and its fly-by-night reputation, Paley overcame their qualms by purchasing a lease for $ 1, 500, 000.

The term itself inspires a certain skepticism, sounding equivalent to " half-baked logic " or " bogus logic ", but the " fuzzy " part does not refer to a lack of rigour in the method, rather to the fact that the logic involved can deal with concepts that cannot be expressed as " true " or " false " but rather as " partially true ".

In a July 1, 2010, blog entry, Ebert maintained his skepticism that video games cannot ever be art in principle, but conceded that he should not have expressed this opinion without being more familiar with the actual experience of playing them.

From the outset, some scientists expressed skepticism about the Piltdown find ( see above ).

Some observers noted that Hu Yaobang's rehabilitation made it more likely that the Party would be willing to re-evaluate the 1989 Tiananmen protests, but other observers expressed skepticism.

Ball has expressed some skepticism of the overall cost of the international standard ; he argues that the enforcement of the standards could be lax, and the regional differences in accounting could become obscured behind a label.

During an interview, Christian reporter Bob Gersztyn expressed his skepticism to Norman about him having a defibrillator: " I started to doubt that he really had a defibrillator.

All but one of the 13 scholars expressed considerable skepticism about the charge, and some went so far as to express a conviction that it is almost certainly not true that Jefferson was the father of Eston or other Hemings ' children.

The German ambassador to Croatia at the time, Gebhard Weiss, expressed skepticism towards " the avoidance of explicit photographs of the reign of terror ".

For over a year, police expressed skepticism about the husband's account and did not rule him out as a suspect.

Blix expressed skepticism over Iraq's claims to have destroyed its stockpiles of anthrax and VX nerve agent in Time magazine.

He expressed deep skepticism about social democratic reforms throughout most of the post-World War II era and has advocated a larger role for market mechanisms to solve economic problems.

Regarding the " radio music box " prediction, the memo he allegedly wrote making that claim has never been found, but Louise Benjamin, the author of the 1993 article which expressed skepticism about it has since back-tracked somewhat.

Xenophanes ' surviving writings display a skepticism that became more commonly expressed during the fourth century.

Scholars critical of Pelliot's Chinese sources have expressed skepticism regarding his conclusions.

They also want to ban research on human fetuses, and have expressed skepticism for proposals to liberalize the biotechnology laws in Norway.

Clemenceau also expressed skepticism and frustration with Wilson's Fourteen Points: " Mr. Wilson bores me with his fourteen points ", complained Clemenceau.

Writing in 1982, Professor Peter Hogg expressed skepticism as to whether the courts could interpret and enforce this provision, noting its " political and moral, rather than legal " character.

Irwin described the tank as a Tiger but Zaloga expressed skepticism that it was a Tiger.

Roberts initially expressed skepticism as to Seth's origins, wondering if he was a part of her own personality.

In June 2006, Shermer, who formerly expressed skepticism regarding the mainstream scientific view on global warming, wrote that, in view of the accumulation of evidence, the position of denying global warming is no longer tenable.