Philosophical skepticism
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Philosophical skepticism (UK spelling, scepticism) is both a philosophical school of thought and a method that crosses disciplines and cultures. A skeptic critically examines the meaning systems of his/her time, and this examination usually results in a position of ambiguity or doubt. This doubt can range from disbelief in contemporary philosophical solutions, to agnosticism, to rejecting the reality of the external world.
See also
- Anti-realism
- Benson Mates
- Brain in a vat
- David Hume
- Dream argument
- Five minute hypothesis
- Münchhausen trilemma
- Nihilism
- Problem of the criterion
- Problem of induction
- Pseudoskepticism
- Pyrrho
- Pyrrhonism
- Sextus Empiricus
- Simulated reality
- Solipsism
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