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The chief worry is that Strawson's point that no one is remotely inclined to accept the sceptic's claim that there is no knowledge establishes at most that we regard such arguments as having the status of defending a paradoxical conclusion, which in itself does not explain why the conclusion is incorrect.
Peter Frederick Strawson Snowdon, Paul 2009
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Be it the rose or the Jet lag, it is yoga that is at work, and it would be impudent to set terms for it or sport a sceptic's cap.
Archive 2009-04-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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From a different local rag The Northern District Times, 4/3/09, another sceptic's letter, betraying much the same ignorance:I am distressed that the blame is placed on excessive carbon dioxide.
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Be it the rose or the Jet lag, it is yoga that is at work, and it would be impudent to set terms for it or sport a sceptic's cap.
Yoga galloped even before the orchids appeared Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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Iran cannot be trusted and the sceptic's argument is without merit.
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Britain's science magazine, New Scientist weighed in in July with an alarm piece on intelligent design, "A sceptic's guide to intelligent design" by Bob Holmes and James Randerson.
Britain's New Scientist drops the ball on intelligent design? Denyse O 2005
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If Grotius can show that so many people throughout history have accepted what the sceptic denies, then perhaps the force of numbers may change the sceptic's mind.
Hugo Grotius Miller, Jon 2005
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Frede, 1987, "The sceptic's two kinds of assent and the question of the possibility of knowledge," in Philosophy in History,
Carneades Allen, James 2004
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The sceptic's "vain philosophy" thus "mocks" lovemocks, that is, the promises made to women and to children, a group that after all includes everyone, including Byron, subject to marital and parental accident.
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The poem's middle sections feature the sceptic's predicaments and career.
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