Sentence examples for skeptical direction from inspiring English sources

Those persisting included the Platonic Academy (transformed in a skeptical direction) and the Aristotelian Lyceum (the Peripatetic School).

Finally, Diogenes tells us (9.115) that Timon praised Arcesilaus (who, during Timon's lifetime, took the Academy in a skeptical direction) in a work called Arcesilaus' Funeral Banquet this by contrast with his attacks on him in the Silloi, as Diogenes mentions and as we can confirm from the surviving fragments.

One branch of ancient skepticism had its roots in Plato's Academy, which from the time of Arcesilaus' headship in the mid-260s BCE turned in a skeptical direction, arguing that there was no clear criterion of truth and so philosophers can only suspend judgment.

Boris Johnson, the mayor of London and the Conservatives' most popular politician, also shuffled a little further in a euro-skeptical direction — although he stopped short of calling for a departure.

When I asked if he was skeptical about the direction of the party, he smiled, then said dryly, "If you've been able to discern a direction on which to be skeptical or optimistic, then you're doing pretty well".

It would be ironic indeed if the restive public elects a school board deeply skeptical about the direction Boasberg (and Michael Bennet before him) is taking the district.

Penrose and Hameroff published several papers on Orch OR in the mid 1990s, prompting near-immediate skeptical rebuke from many directions, having offended computer/artificial intelligence proponents, neuroscientists, philosophers and physicists alike.

While Mr. Chizen is working to move Adobe in a new direction, investors seem skeptical.

She listened to all the cheers, shot skeptical sideways glances in every direction and made a declaration: "Penn State football is a disease.

"ABOVE a supermarket?" my friends asked, sounding skeptical, as I rattled off directions to our destination that evening.

"It has a deep social value, and when evidence points in another direction, people are very skeptical".