Sentence examples for first skeptical from inspiring English sources

The other tendency favored a moderate or mitigated form of skepticism, which, though it accepted the first skeptical doctrine that nothing can be known, held that it is permissible for the wise to form opinions by assenting to non-cognitive impressions so long as they are sufficiently probable and the assent given to them is bestowed in the provisional spirit of Carneades' second proposal.

The bishop of Avignon, at first skeptical, finally approved the project, and work began in 1177.

We were at first skeptical if this could be done as we weren't sure of a number of things.

While her parents were at first skeptical of her chosen path, now she said, they are supportive.

Mr. Gates said he was at first skeptical that the group would be able to persuade large retailers to participate.

Andrei Kolesnikov, director of the agency that coordinates Cyrillic domains, said he was at first skeptical that they were needed.

But USA Today offers a second skeptical voice, this one not so easily dismissed as politically motivated: weather forecaster Joe D'Aleo, co-founder of The Weather Channel.

The second skeptical proposition, that one ought to suspend judgment, the Academics deduced from the first together with the Stoic doctrine that the wise do not hold (mere) opinions (S.E. M 7.155 7).

First, be skeptical about receiving too much special attention.

The C.I.A. at first was skeptical, according to two former agency officials.

Mr. Shelby, also 68, remembers the moment when he first became skeptical of the C.I.A.