(Peter had to explain to a skeptical crowd that, appearances notwithstanding, the apostles weren't drunk — they were saved).
The Irish bishop George Berkeley, an empiricist and idealist, fought skeptical doubts by identifying appearance and reality and offering a spiritualistic metaphysics.
Last month, only hours before he was scheduled to make his first campaign appearance before skeptical Jewish voters at a Florida synagogue, Mr. Obama received word that an important vote had been scheduled in Washington.
The English idealist F.H. Bradley used classical skeptical arguments in his Appearance and Reality: A Metaphysical Essay (1893) to argue that the world cannot be understood empirically or materialistically; true knowledge can be reached only by transcending the world of appearance.
When Callaway introduced the original Big Bertha driver in 1991, people were skeptical because of its appearance.
Ms. Sherman appeared skeptical.
(His human mother was attacked by vampires while she was pregnant.) "He has all of their strengths, but none of their weaknesses," a scholar (Randy Quaid, in an uncredited appearance) tells a skeptical young woman.
Her mother, Billie Winner-Davis, told HuffPost before the court appearance Thursday she remains skeptical of the FBI's version of events.
First appeared in Skeptical Inquirer 2001.
The skeptical proposals (that the skeptic adheres to the plausible, the convincing, or to appearances) have in common their appeal to something less than full-fledged belief about how things are, while allowing something sufficient to generate and guide action.
If so, then we cannot be left in the limbo of skeptical doubt behind a veil of appearances wondering where the truth lies.
