Definition of "scepticism" [scepticism]

• Variant of skepticism. (noun)

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• "THE SOPHISTS (_concluded_) _Nothing knowable -- The solitude of scepticism -- The lawlessness of scepticism -- The good in scepticism_"
• "The term scepticism, in its primary signification, contains the idea of inquiring, of examining; and they give the name of _sceptics_ to the philosophers who declare that there is nothing to discover, and consequently nothing to examine, or to search for!"
• "In Europe for example scepticism is wide spread and that's not for lack of means to buy one."