Definition of skeptic

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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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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..
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.
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..
Skeptic :: Skeptic (a.) Alt. of Skeptica.
Pyrrhonist :: Pyrrhonist (n.) A follower of Pyrrho; a skeptic.
Unbelief :: Unbelief (n.) The withholding of belief; doubt; incredulity; skepticism.
Unbeliever :: Unbeliever (n.) One who does not believe; an incredulous person; a doubter; a skeptic.
Skepticize :: Skepticize (v. i.) To doubt; to pretend to doubt of everything.
Aporetical :: Aporetical (a.) Doubting; skeptical.
Skeptic :: Skeptic (n.) A person who doubts the existence and perfections of God, or the truth of revelation; one who disbelieves the divine origin of the Christian religion..
Skeptical :: Skeptical (a.) Of or pertaining to a sceptic or skepticism; characterized by skepticism; hesitating to admit the certainly of doctrines or principles; doubting of everything.
Scepticism :: Scepticism () etc. See Skeptic, Skeptical, Skepticism, etc..
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..
Freethinking :: Freethinking (a.) Exhibiting undue boldness of speculation; skeptical.
Unbelieving :: Unbelieving (a.) Not believing; incredulous; doubting; distrusting; skeptical.
Pyrrhonism :: Pyrrhonism (n.) Skepticism; universal doubt.
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..
Incredulous :: Incredulous (a.) Not credulous; indisposed to admit or accept that which is related as true, skeptical; unbelieving..
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..
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