Sentence examples for sceptical attitudes from inspiring English sources

He opposed philosophical theories of language, such as Russell's or Davidson's, as he interpreted it, which overestimate the degree to which ordinary language is akin to formal languages, and he also opposed sceptical attitudes to the notions of meaning and truth along the lines developed by Quine and Dummett.

It is encouraging that making condoms readily available seemed partially to compensate for sceptical attitudes among men in Livingstone.

Many faced multiple barriers to getting care, often perceived by patients to be due to overwhelmingly negative and sceptical attitudes towards ADHD by health professionals.

Also media coverage of end-of-life decisions like euthanasia, assisted suicide, or the forgoing of medical treatment, has reported rather sceptical attitudes in low-trust countries like Italy ([ 3] p.396), Croatia [ 62], and Portugal ([ 63] p.78f).

Stenhoff et al. [ 12] state that the first step in achieving this change is to address potential negative attitudes among trainers as sceptical attitudes towards CFS/ME can be learned by students.

Now he is research director for the Renewable Energy Foundation, which takes a sceptical attitude towards wind power.

Dostoyevsky was a great Russian writer, but had a very sceptical attitude towards the Jews.

Rather like the 18th-century Scottish philosopher David Hume, Russell maintained a sceptical attitude to metaphysical questions.

However, the ease with which all this information could be accessed led to a more sceptical attitude online.

When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, he saw it as vindication of his sceptical attitude to détente.

If you go see a musical with a sceptical attitude, these efforts are bound to seem teeth-clenchingly awful.