Sentence examples for sceptical possibility from inspiring English sources

Realism makes truth inaccessible (inasmuch as it admits the sceptical possibility that even our best-confirmed theories about the world could all be false), while anti-realism makes truth too epistemic (inasmuch as it rejects the idea of truth as objective).

In fact, Hood is sceptical about the possibility of long-lasting change.

The athletes in Gondar were sceptical about the possibility until I mentioned drugs.

The climax is notably sceptical about the possibility of truth and reconciliation.

Yet those same polls show Israelis are also sceptical about the possibility of realising such a peace.

A preliminary CID report, however, was sceptical about the possibility of either an accident – the dose was too large – or suicide.

The Washington Post reported that US intelligence agencies were sceptical about the possibility that hackers would have been able to systematically manipulate the results of the election.

"I am very sceptical about the possibility of a global agreement ever being reached when you look at what happened in Copenhagen," he told reporters before the speech, adding there was no real prospect of a deal between the major emitters Europe, the US and north Asia.

His ally, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the leader of the SPD in parliament, is also thought to be sceptical about the possibility.

Consequently, if there is a variable that is measured downstream of a particular process, then it is reasonable to be sceptical about the possibility of that variable affecting the upstream process (obviously there are exceptions and common causes are possible).

Thus, whilst Collingwood's philosophy of history, like Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics, rejects psychologism, Collingwood, unlike Gadamer is not sceptical about the possibility of reaching inter-generational agreement about the meaning of past actions (Kobayashi & Marion 2011).