scepticism

scep·ti·cism

noun

Variant of skepticism

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Noun

(uncountable)

(UK) Alternative spelling of skepticism.

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But more important was the influence of philosophy, which led soon enough to a general scepticism among the upper classes.
There was a new scepticism - at the very least a doctrine of limitation in human knowledge; but in its extremer forms an absolute agnosticism.
Ancient scepticism was frankly opposed to religious belief.
But scepticism of this kind was not universal.
He published works on Leibnitz, empiricism and scepticism in Hume's philosophy, modern pessimism, Kantic criticism, English philosophy, Heraclitus of Ephesus and many other subjects.

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