It is an attitude, a stance toward measuring, evaluating and describing the world that is based on skepticism, investigation and evidence.
Presidents begin their term with the appearance of omnipotence but, unable to overcome opportunism based on skepticism about whether the delegative leader can deliver the goods, they fall prey to impotence and policy failure.
It has recently been argued in fact, that the reason Bayle distances himself in this way is that he is offering a reductio ad absurdum of Catholic fideism based on philosophical skepticism.
But respect does not mean that one must abandon key principles just because the military says so. Maintaining civilian control requires civilians and political leaders to exercise reasoned judgment based on healthy skepticism.
If science is a system of understanding the world, then it is based on experiment, skepticism, falsification and doubt, and thus very different from a 'religion' which is based on 'faith' -- in the 'truth' of (say) the incarnation, or that the words are directly dictated by God -- of which the adherent must be certain, with no room for doubt whatsoever.
Cam'ron and his Harlem-based crew, the Diplomats, have built a small empire based on swagger and skepticism.
Based on fear or skepticism about our motives, two of the TBAs were not as forthcoming about the degrees to which they assisted the women, (e.g. whether they delivered the baby, the placenta, or only gave advice).
Finally, using a unique measure of auditor skepticism based on revealed behavior, we find that auditors were more skeptical if the controller displayed nonverbal cues associated with deception, than when these specific cues were not present or not observable (CMC).
Skepticism, based on the ideas of Hume, asserts that certainty about anything is impossible, so one can never know for sure whether or not a god exists.
In court, Mr. Scott brought up the issue of rent stabilization based on 421-g, evoking skepticism from the judge, Timmie Elsner.
The bank could face some increased skepticism based on the increase in assets on its balance sheet that it categorizes as "Level 3," or hardest to value.
