His contribution to the controversy were his reviews of Jacobi and Herder in the Allgemeine Literatur Zeitung, and his 1787 tract Über das Verhältnis der Metaphysik zu der Religion.[19] In these writings Rehberg continues to develop his skepticism, which now became his settled position.
Over the years, I have developed great skepticism toward so-called experts and pontificators who seem authoritative in forecasting and create an illusion of knowing based on very little actual expertise.
As as one reviewer explained, "she's had to learn the hard way (how to develop) a healthy skepticism about silver-bullet notions of reform".
In addition, CURE students may have increased opportunities to develop and express skepticism because they are less likely to see their peers as authority figures.
"It took a very long time for me to develop any kind of skepticism at all even to the most over-extended claims of the extension of programs or policies [by the US security services]," he said.
Skepticism developed with regard to various disciplines in which people claimed to have knowledge.
Bell speaks fondly of Mars Hill, but he has also developed a certain skepticism about the idea of a church as a big, sustainable institution.
In Islamic Spain, where there was more contact with ancient learning, a form of antirational skepticism developed among Muslim and Jewish theologians.
Conventions seem less important also because politics has come to seem less important--because growing numbers of Americans have developed such profound skepticism about the process...that they have ceased to take it seriously.
