Sentence examples for universal doubt from inspiring English sources

As a way of summarizing the universal doubt into which he has fallen, Descartes supposes that an "evil genius of the utmost power and cunning has employed all his energies in order to deceive me".

The first, and most important, of these characteristics was the 'method of doubt'[ '[Cartesianism] teaches that philosophy must begin with universal doubt'.

Although Malebranche is as obsessed as Descartes with finding the correct method for discovering the truth, nothing like the Cartesian method of universal doubt can be found in his writings.

TS Eliot is supposed to have said: "Although it is only too easy for a writer to be local without being universal, I doubt whether a poet or novelist can be universal without being local, too". To be purely universal is to inhabit an abstract universe too detached from the real world.

Nagelsmann promotion was fast-tracked to the first-team job in February, to a combination of universal disbelief and doubt.

G.E., which owns a majority share of NBC Universal, will no doubt be glad to hand over fifty-one per cent of the company to Comcast, assuming the planned merger takes place.

The historian David Olusoga's Black and British: A Forgotten History documentary series and book were both a universal hit, no doubt in part due to the gaping historical hole left by education that many are desperate to fill.

No doubt Universal will then be able to dictate the kind of music services we'll see to an ever greater degree, as well as which artists get the biggest marketing push and how much musicians will be able to earn from such services.

Making doubt universal and hyperbolic helps to distinguish genuine unshakability from the mere appearance of it.

General Electric studio Universal was no doubt hoping that Get Him to the Greek would be this year's The Hangover (which earned $470 million on an estimated budget of $35 million).

A book from the mind behind The Jealous Curator, Danielle Krysa, is tackling the overwhelming topic that is "the block". She interviewed 50 professional and amateur, trained and self-taught artists to explore the ways in which the world's most creative individuals overcome the universal feeling of doubt.