Sentence examples for sceptical solution from inspiring English sources

Hume calls his constructive account of causal inference a "sceptical solution" to the "sceptical doubts" he raised in the critical phase of his argument.

The constructive phase in his Enquiry account is the following section, also appropriately titled "Sceptical solution of these doubts", while the corresponding sections of the Treatise stretch from 1.3.7 through 1.3.10.

It differs in the prominence it gives to the opening sentence of Philosophical Investigations §201: 'This was our paradox: no course of action could be determined by a rule, because every course of action can be made out to accord with the rule.' Kripke says of this (p. 68), 'The impossibility of private language emerges as a corollary of [Wittgenstein's] sceptical solution of his own paradox'.

Derek Scissors is much more sceptical: "The solution we've come up with is completely misguided". He says blanket tariffs fail to distinguish between firms that have benefited from espionage and those that have not.

They are equally sceptical of solutions that appear to be more interested in offenders than victims.

If pornography silences women in this way, there may be some reason to be sceptical that the solution preferred by many liberals (and feminists) of countering the harms of pornography with more speech-protest, satire, education and public debate-will be effective.

Two polls published in Israeli newspapers showed the Israeli public to be hopeful for a solution, but sceptical about their leaders.

The CIA appears to be the most sceptical about a military solution and shares the state department's position, say British MPs, in suggesting gradually stepping up pressure on the Iranians.

He is sceptical about one-shot solutions (miracle diet pills, antioxidants), since there is a complex interdependence between the actions of hormones and food intake.

"People will be sceptical if a long-term solution to regulating the debt is not found.

And white men are disproportionately sceptical of Mr Obama's proposed solutions.