sceptic in English
How does he gain by fortressing himself and his administration away from critics, skeptics , and questioners?
Xenophanes was a sceptic who denied that knowledge could be obtained by us humans; at best we merely have beliefs, the truth or falsity of which will remain largely unknown to us.
Use "sceptic" in a sentence
1. He was a born sceptic.
2. I am a born sceptic.
3. The empirical sceptic appropriately responds: how do you know?
4. 14 synonyms for Cynic: sceptic, doubter, pessimist, misanthrope, misanthropist, scoffer, misanthrope
5. Perhaps he is a climate sceptic – I have no idea.
6. But he's a dual personality, sceptic and optimist in one.
7. She is a sceptic about the dangers of global warming.
8. SCHOOLCRAFT Napoleon, himself a sceptic, was Cognizant of this slave philosophy
9. The government must still convince the sceptic that its policy will work.
10. He has been a sceptic in all of his previous incarnations.
11. She a sceptic and deeper thinker and likes to judge by intuition.
12. For he who thinks to remain neutral is above all a sceptic.
13. Why did I introduce myself as a sceptic about values but not about facts?
14. You may be a sceptic and put it down to life's inequalities.
15. Climatologist Stephen Schneider discusses media representations of science -- and confronts a global warming sceptic.
16. Arriving in Egypt, Frederick met the sultan, a fellow sceptic in religious questions.
17. This said, the man before us is a sceptic in the original sense.
18. People say it can cure colds, but I'm a bit of a sceptic.
19. Synonyms: sceptic, doubter, pessimist, misanthrope More Synonyms of Cynic COBUILD Advanced English Dictionary.
20. 22 People say it can cure colds,(www.Sentencedict.com) but I'm a bit of a sceptic.
21. It maintains that what the sceptic takes to be his strength is in fact his weakness.
22. This was a Clincher, and the sceptic joined in the laugh at his own expense
23. Until 5th century B. C. , this sceptic started, its main representative was the school of sophism .
24. Inside every China sceptic is a prophet of the New Yellow Peril waiting to be let out.
25. It may be that the correct account of knowledge does unfortunately give the sceptic the opening he is looking for.
26. Ah you will see there is a close similarity, there is well externalism has become a very popular way of addressing the sceptic .
27. Atheistic adjective nonbelieving, sceptic, disbelieving, faithless, heathen, infidel, godless, irreligious, unbelieving, freethinking, paganistic, nullifidian Atheistic philosophers Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition
28. 1995, Paul Russell, Freedom and Moral Sentiment: Hume's Way of Naturalizing Responsibility, page 172: Unlike the rationalistic sceptic, the rationalistic Antisceptic believes he can provide an adequate justification for responsibility [.]··Misspelling of antiseptic.
29. Agnostic noun sceptic, cynic, scoffer, doubter, disbeliever, unbeliever, doubting Thomas, Pyrrhonist He was, if not an atheist, an Agnostic. adjective sceptical, questioning, doubting, cynical, doubtful, scoffing, unconvinced, disbelieving, incredulous, quizzical, mistrustful, unbelieving She grew up in an Agnostic …
30. The aim of Pyrrhonism was Ataraxia in those things which pertain to opinion, and moderation in the things which life imposes.: The method, however, by which Ataraxia or peace of mind could be reached, was peculiar to the Sceptic.
31. Abiogenesists are celebrating water discolouring in a test-tube in their labs – but that’s nothing – two new species have also been discovered – The Peckerhead Fish and the Pegasus Dog, and it’s got me, a formerly devout and militant anti-evolutionist sceptic, really excited.