Sceptical

  • 21sceptical — adjective Syn: dubious, doubtful, doubting, cynical, distrustful, suspicious, disbelieving, unconvinced Ant: certain, convinced …

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  • 22sceptical — scep•ti•cal [[t]ˈskɛp tɪ kəl[/t]] adj. skeptical …

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  • 23sceptical —   Hilina i ole, ho omahuakala, mana o i o ole, ho opāhala, maloka, ho omaloka …

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  • 24sceptical — adj. (US skeptical) 1 inclined to question the truth or soundness of accepted ideas, facts, etc.; critical; incredulous. 2 Philos. of or accepting the philosophy of Pyrrhonism, denying the possibility of knowledge. Derivatives: sceptically adv …

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  • 25The Sceptical Chymist — Portada de la primera edición de The Sceptical Chymist (1661). The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico Physical Doubts Paradoxes («El químico escéptico o Dudas y paradojas químico físicas») es el título de la principal obra científica de Robert Boyle,… …

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  • 26sceptic - sceptical — ◊ sceptic Sceptic is a noun. A sceptic is someone who has doubts about things that other people believe. The sceptic may argue that there are no grounds for such optimism. Benn confounded the sceptics by winning thirty seven votes in the… …

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  • 27The Sceptical Chymist — or Chymico Physical Doubts Paradoxes is the title of Robert Boyle s masterpiece of scientific literature, published in London in 1661. In the form of a dialogue, the Sceptical Chymist presented Boyle s hypothesis that matter consisted of atoms… …

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  • 28Euro-sceptical — adjective Of or pertaining to Euro sceptics or Euro scepticism Ant: Europhile See Also: Euro sceptic, Euro scepticism …

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  • 29Renaissance philosophy outside Italy — Stuart Brown Italy might justly be described as the home of Renaissance philosophy. Many of the important cultural developments of the period originated in Italy and only gradually spread north and west to other countries. But each of the other… …

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  • 30Sceptics (The) — The sceptics Michael Frede INTRODUCTION When we speak of ‘scepticism’ and of ‘sceptics’, we primarily think of a philosophical position according to which nothing is known for certain, or even nothing can be known for certain. There are certain… …

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