scepsis

alternative skepsis

1. uncommonuncountablehuman sciencesSkepticism; a skeptical approach or belief.

   Among their products were the system of Locke, the scepsis of Hume, the critical philosophy of Kant.

   1862 October 13, James Martineau, The Transient and the Permanent in Theology: An Address at the Opening of the Session of Manchester New College […], published 1862, page 4

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   On the one side it is seen that the sole basis of philosophy is experience, and on the other that scepsis has shaken the credibility of experience.

   1875, Albert Schwegler, translated by James Hutchison Stirling, Handbook of the History of Philosophy, page 279

   Permanent scepsis is, after all, the condition sine qua non of not only philosophy but also of all true social action.

   1973, Praxis, volume 9/10, page 91

   The connection with opīnor ‘to suspect’ is difficult for semantic reasons; EM regard it with scepsis.

   2008, Michiel de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages, →ISBN, page 432