To achieve this, he contends that we "cannot possibly go too far in [our] distrustful attitude" (Med. 1, AT 7 22).
Such a distrustful attitude drains a lot of the scientist's energy that would better be spent on a good interview.
For this reason, Descartes feels confident in pursuing the method of hyperbolic doubt, which rejects as false any opinion concerning which the slightest doubt can be raised: "I know that no danger or error will result from my plan, and that I cannot possibly go too far in my distrustful attitude.
For example, the region in which Option 3 of mild symptomatology (i.e., "Presents a guarded or even openly distrustful attitude, but thoughts, interactions, and behavior are minimally affected"). is most likely to be endorsed lies between the region in which Option 2, "Questionable pathology", and Option 4, "Moderate" levels of psychopathology, are most likely to be endorsed.
As the reporter, Steve Cell seems simply uncomfortable as an adamantly distrustful muckraker whose attitude would betray journalistic objectivity in any era and in current circumstances rings unfeasibly with sureness.
His own heterogeneous ethnic background, and the diverse social and cultural mix in and around greater Los Angeles, California, were crucial in the formation of Zappa as a practitioner of underground music and of his later distrustful and openly critical attitude towards "mainstream" social, political and musical movements.
Attitudes Toward Government: Whites in the working class are more distrustful of government than other Americans.
If someone held a contrary attitude, the correction not only didn't work — it made the subject more distrustful of the source.
His biggest challenge, he admits, is "to change the attitude of people, to give them back optimism they've become too cynical and distrustful of politicians and public servants".
