Who/What is a Skeptic/Skepticism?
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** Because of the announcement that the Internet Archive my collapse due to copyright laws, I will copy and paste the original article below the "additional resources" section** I pose this question in response to a blog post I came across: Why I am No Longer a Skeptic . The language interested me because I think of Skepticism as a process of questioning, systematic application of critical methods, set of procedures, process of unveiling, form of inquiry, and method of doubt as opposed to a noun or category implied by the title. The label "Skeptic" would apply to someone who practices these habits in a self-corrective, iterative, and adaptive manner. You can be "skeptical" about pretty much anything; the effectiveness of a policy, the assumptions underlying a philosophical system, the notion of 'possibility' itself, the capacity for rational methods to reveal truth, grand narratives, and all-encompassing theoretical systems. There is a family rese