3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sceptic \Scep"tic\, Sceptical \Scep"tic*al\, Scepticism
\Scep"ti*cism\,
etc See {Skeptic}, {Skeptical}, {Skepticism}, etc
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Skepticism \Skep"ti*cism\, n. [Cf. F. scepticisme.] [Written
also {scepticism}.]
1. An undecided, inquiring state of mind; doubt; uncertainty.
That momentary amazement, and irresolution, and
confusion, which is the result of skepticism.
--Hune.
2. (Metaph.) The doctrine that no fact or principle can be
certainly known the tenet that all knowledge is
uncertain; 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.
3. (Theol.) 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.
Let no . . . secret skepticism lead any one to doubt
whether this blessed prospect will be realized. --S.
Miller.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
scepticism
n : the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge [syn: {agnosticism},
{skepticism}]
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