Definition of skeptic

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Skeptic (n.) One who is yet undecided as to what is true; one who is looking or inquiring for what is true; an inquirer after facts or reasons.

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Freethinking :: Freethinking (a.) Exhibiting undue boldness of speculation; skeptical.
Pyrrhonism :: Pyrrhonism (n.) Skepticism; universal doubt.
Scepsis :: Scepsis (n.) Skepticism; skeptical philosophy.
Unbelieving :: Unbelieving (a.) Not believing; incredulous; doubting; distrusting; skeptical.
Skepticism :: Skepticism (n.) An undecided, inquiring state of mind; doubt; uncertainty..
Skeptic :: Skeptic (a.) Alt. of Skeptica.
Scepticism :: Scepticism () etc. See Skeptic, Skeptical, Skepticism, etc..
Skeptic :: Skeptic (n.) One who is yet undecided as to what is true; one who is looking or inquiring for what is true; an inquirer after facts or reasons.
Skeptical :: Skeptical (a.) Doubting or denying the truth of revelation, or the sacred Scriptures..
Skepticism :: Skepticism (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..
Aporetical :: Aporetical (a.) Doubting; skeptical.
Freethinker :: Freethinker (n.) One who speculates or forms opinions independently of the authority of others; esp., in the sphere or religion, one who forms opinions independently of the authority of revelation or of the church; an unbeliever; -- a term assumed by deists and skeptics in the eighteenth century..
Pyrrhonist :: Pyrrhonist (n.) A follower of Pyrrho; a skeptic.
Skepticism :: 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..
Acatalepsy :: Acatalepsy (n.) Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability..
Unbeliever :: Unbeliever (n.) One who does not believe; an incredulous person; a doubter; a skeptic.
Incredulity :: Incredulity (n.) The state or quality of being i/credulous; a withholding or refusal of belief; skepticism; unbelief; disbelief.
Agnosticism :: Agnosticism (n.) The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism..
Skepticize :: Skepticize (v. i.) To doubt; to pretend to doubt of everything.
Skeptic :: Skeptic (n.) A doubter as to whether any fact or truth can be certainly known; a universal doubter; a Pyrrhonist; hence, in modern usage, occasionally, a person who questions whether any truth or fact can be established on philosophical grounds; sometimes, a critical inquirer, in opposition to a dogmatist..
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