Skepticism
skep•ti•cism also scep•ti•cism
Pronunciation Key [skep-tuh-siz-uhm] noun
Accepted Definitions:
- A doubting or questioning attitude or state of mind; dubiety.
- The doctrine that absolute knowledge is impossible, either in a particular domain or in general.
- A methodology based on an assumption of doubt with the aim of acquiring approximate or relative certainty.
- Doubt or disbelief of religious tenets.
- An undecided, inquiring state of mind; doubt; uncertainty
- 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.
- 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.