skepsis

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Weblogs bestrijden het pessimisme en de kortzichtige “what†™ s-in-it-for-me? †skepsis in ons land het beste als ze laten zien dat ze zelf factoren van betekenis zijn.

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  • Weblogs bestrijden het pessimisme en de kortzichtige “what†™ s-in-it-for-me? †skepsis in ons land het beste als ze laten zien dat ze zelf factoren van betekenis zijn. —  About:Blank
  • Vestlige regeringer og en bred alliance af aktivistgrupper har ud trykt skepsis over for initiativet. —  _Politik
  • Argos fik nemlig Ways tegneseriealbum "The Umbrella Academy" til sin 29-års fødselsdag, og da han først havde overvundet sin skepsis ( "I'm not really a fan of My Chemical Romance, and Grant Morrison's pretentious ramblings in the introduction to the book claiming that the band is spearheading some sort of" necrodelic "counter-culture revolution makes me dislike them even more"), havde han faktisk pæne ting at sige. —  Blogbot - forsiden
  • Where skepsis, in the original Greek, means rational doubt and probing, the word skeptic has increasingly come to mean defensive and doctrinaire, and a skeptic as someone who identifies with a position and defends it to the bitter end, often striving to downplay, misrepresent or simply ignore the evidence. —  TDG - Science, Magick, Myth and History
  • All manner of doubt, inquiry, [Greek: skepsis] as it is named, about all manner of objects, dwells in every reasonable mind. —  Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
 

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