The word "ignorant" is an adjective that describes a person in the 1. state of being unaware, or even 2. cognitive dissonance and 3. other cognitive relation, and can describe individuals who deliberately ignore or disregard important information or facts, or 4. individuals who are unaware of important information or facts. Ignorance can appear in three different types: 5. factual ignorance (absence of knowledge of some fact), 6. object ignorance (lack of acquaintance with some object), and 7. technical ignorance (absence of knowledge of how to do something) — Wikipedia
Skepticism (American and Canadian English) or scepticism (British, Irish, and Australian English) is 8. generally a questioning attitude or doubt towards one or more putative instances of knowledge which are asserted to be mere belief or dogma. Formally, skepticism is a topic of interest in philosophy, particularly epistemology. More informally, 9. skepticism as an expression of questioning or doubt can be applied to any topic, such as politics, religion, or pseudoscience. It is often applied within restricted domains, such as morality (moral skepticism), theism (skepticism about the existence of God), or the supernatural.
Philosophical skepticism comes in various forms. 10. Radical forms of philosophical skepticism deny that knowledge or rational belief is possible and urge us to suspend judgment on many or all controversial matters. 11. More moderate forms of philosophical skepticism claim only that nothing can be known with certainty, or that we can know little or nothing about non-empirical matters, such as whether God exists, whether human beings have free will, or whether there is an afterlife. — Wikipedia
All credit to you for setting up the targets ahead of the shooting - I mean troubling to establish some definitions. But the one lacking is of knowledge.The skepticism in the OP is of the kind that questions all knowledge, — TheMadFool
All credit to you for setting up the targets ahead of the shooting - I mean troubling to establish some definitions. But the one lacking is of knowledge.
Knowledge comes in different proofs, or flavours for a different metaphor. Some things are known a priori; known as so because they cannot be otherwise. Other things a posteriori, that can indeed be otherwise. Skepticism, as I understand, is simply the guts not to commit until the whatever-it-is is known to the appropriate degree of either certainty or confidence. And there are two kinds (at least) of certainty: One that acknowledges, and one that commits. The first, I see or I agree; the second, I will do it.
But it would seem - your point - that some knowledge of some kind is needed to even play this game. In that case the skeptic cannot be completely a skeptic. Point to you! — tim wood
the matter boils down to a proposition and its truth value and the skeptic's statement that either such can't be determined or that if determined, not with 100% certainty. — TheMadFool
Can you say "stock market?" A big part of the world runs on propositions of doubtable truth value. If you don't agree to that, would you agree that the Brooklyn Bridge is a mighty nice piece of property? For not a lot of money I can quit-claim it to you. — tim wood
I think maybe a surfeit of Christmas cheer? Because in one way, I agree, in another, no. Prehaps you mean a true definition as a true definition. No argument there. .Not to contradict you but definitions can't be true/false. — TheMadFool
I think maybe a surfeit of Christmas cheer? Because in one way, I agree, in another, no. Prehaps you mean a true definition as a true definition. No argument there. . — tim wood
No argument there. . — tim wood
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