Skepticism or scepticism ( see spelling differences ) is generally any questioning attitude towards knowledge, facts, or opinions / beliefs stated as facts, or doubt regarding claims that are taken for granted elsewhere.

Skepticism, much less any solution to skepticism, is a thesis in itself.

Skepticism is related to the question of whether a certain knowledge is possible.

Skepticism is in this view valuable since it encourages continued investigation.

Skepticism is an important aspect of Tibetan Buddhism, an attitude of critical skepticism is encouraged to promote abilities in analytic meditation.

Skepticism might be applied when extinct species are included in trees that are wholly or partly based on DNA sequence data, due to the fact that little useful " ancient DNA " is preserved for longer than 100, 000 years, and except in the most unusual circumstances no DNA sequences long enough for use in phylogenetic analyses have yet been recovered from material over 1 million years old.

The legacy of Pyrrhonism is described in Richard Popkin's The History of Skepticism from Erasmus to Descartes and High Road to Pyrrhonism.

The New Skepticism described by Paul Kurtz is scientific skepticism.

Skepticism is part of the scientific method ; for instance an experimental result is not regarded as established until it can be shown to be repeatable independently.

Skepticism is an approach to strange or unusual claims where doubt is preferred to belief, given a lack of conclusive evidence.

They emphasize the uncertainty of applying new technology while it is still being researched, and advocate discontinuing the use of brain fingerprinting in criminal and counterterrorism cases until more research has been completed ( Fox 2006b " Brain Fingerprinting Skepticism ", Abdollah 2003 " Issues: Brain Fingerprinting ").

Academic skeptics ( so called because this was the type of Skepticism taught in Plato's Academy in Athens ) hold that all knowledge is impossible, except for the knowledge that all other knowledge is impossible.

Skepticism is a funeral doom metal band from Finland.

Now in its 60th year of publication, J. C. is undergoing a revival and expansion under the leadership of its new editor, Lawrence Bush, whose new column, " Religion and Skepticism ," contends playfully with many manifestations of the " spirituality " of contemporary American culture.

Skepticism proposes that Truth is unknowable, which can be challenged by responding with the peritrope — the question, Well, then, how do you know that to be true?

* Skepticism about RCT results may not always be extended to conditions or diseases not central to the study.

* DeRose, Keith ( 1999 ) " Responding to Skepticism ", Skepticism: A Contemporary Reader.

Skepticism evolved epistemology out of metaphysics.

* Skepticism: Scientific facts must not be based solely on faith.

* Hicks, Stephen R. C. ( 2004 ) Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault ( ISBN 1-59247-646-5 )

* Le Morvan, P., " Healthy Skepticism and Practical Wisdom ," Logos & Episteme II, 1 ( 2011 ): 87-102.

* " In the Name of Skepticism: Martin Gardner's Misrepresentations of General Semantics ", by Bruce I. Kodish, appeared in General Semantics Bulletin, Number 71, 2004.

The Radical Rhetoric of the English Deists: The Discourse of Skepticism, 1680 – 1750.

The school's popularity grew and it became, along with Stoicism and Skepticism, one of the three dominant schools of Hellenistic Philosophy, lasting strongly through the later Roman Empire.

* Hicks, Stephen R. C. Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault ( Scholargy Publishing, 2004 ).

* Koller, John M. Skepticism in Early Indian Thought, Philosophy East and West ( 1977 ).

Extraordinary Knowing: Science, Skepticism, and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind.

* Level 4: Skepticism and adoption of scientific method.

Skepticism exists about the truthfulness of the story, suggesting that the ship may have never actually existed, but has become something of a legend.

* Sextus Empiricus, Selections from the Major Writings on Skepticism Man and God.

On 13 August 2010, Bardot lashed out at director Kyle Newman regarding his plans to make a biographical film on her life.

Ruddock claims that DS19 released distorted information regarding her political party affiliations to the media and Conservative Party candidates.

When she tried to collect money from her husband ’ s estate, she faced complicated lawsuits regarding the recovery of salary due her husband.

Author David Kaufman asserts that one of Day's costars, actor Louis Jourdan, maintained that Day herself disliked her husband, but Day's public statements regarding Melcher appear to contradict that assertion.

The Canadian dominatrix Terri-Jean Bedford, who was one of three women who initiated an application in the Ontario Superior Court seeking invalidation of Canada's laws regarding brothels, sought to differentiate for clarity her occupation as a dominatrix rather than a prostitute to the media, due to frequent misunderstanding and conflation by the public of the two terms.

Elizabeth was brought to court, and interrogated regarding her role, and on 18 March, she was imprisoned in the Tower of London.

Whilst Laura Mulvey's paper has a particular place in the feminist film theory, it is also important to note that her ideas regarding ways of watching the cinema ( from the voyeuristic element to the feelings of identification ) have been very important in terms of defining spectatorship from the psychoanalytical view point.

The concept of the Four Freedoms became part of the personal mission undertaken by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt regarding her inspiration behind the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, General Assembly Resolution 217A.

She is mentioned at least four times in the Talmudic discourse regarding her law decrees first Babylonian Talmud Berakhot 10a then in Tosefta Pesahim 62b in Babylonian Talmud Eruvin 53b – 54a and Babylonian Talmud Avodah Zarah 18b.

Seeking information, Mary sent a pointed list of questions to her sister, Anne, regarding the circumstances of the birth.

When Mary was in her thirties, she attended a reunion with Edward and Elizabeth for Christmas 1550, where 13-year-old Edward embarrassed Mary, and reduced both her and himself to tears in front of the court, by publicly reproving her for ignoring his laws regarding worship.

It exhibits a prestigious collection of art and historical items regarding Maria Luigia of Habsburg and her first husband Napoleon Bonaparte ; important works and documents concerning the Duchy of Parma in the 18th and 19th centuries are also kept by the Museum.

Debra posed in a bikini with her husband for a Sports Illustrated pictorial regarding athletes and their wives.

* The Witches ' New Year-A ReClaiming Wiccan's account of her celebrations and beliefs regarding Samhain.

On a television show regarding the issue, she called her Council colleagues who had voted for the measure “ patriots ” who had every right to protest.

Public disorder regarding the Roses dynasties was always a threat until the 17th century Stuart / Bourbon re-alignment occasioned by a series of events such as the execution of Lady Jane Grey, despite her brother in law, Leicester's reputation in Holland, the Rising of the North ( in which the old Percy-Neville feud and even anti-Scottish sentiment was discarded on account of religion ; Northern England shared the same Avignonese bias as the Scottish court, on par with Valois France and Castile, which became the backbone of the Counter-Reformation, with Protestants being solidly anti-Avignonese ) and death of Elizabeth I of England without children.

Season three ( 1998 – 1999 ) sees Buffy reconnect to her calling, her friends, and her family after her departure, as well as make difficult life decisions regarding her relationship with the resurrected Angel.

Robert invites a Doctor Mosgrave to make a more astute judgement regarding Lucy's sanity, and he proclaims that she is indeed victim to latent insanity, which overpowers her in times of stress and makes her very dangerous to any and all.