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Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science by Robert L. Park, Princeton University Press, 2008. 240 pp., $24.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-13355-3
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A "SKEPTIC," IN ITS ORIGINAL Greek skepsis, means "examination, inquiry, consideration." The Oxford English Dictionary gives this historical usage: "One who doubts the validity of what claims to be knowledge in some particular department of inquiry; one who maintains a doubting attitude with reference to some particular question or statement." And: "a seeker after troth; an inquirer who has not yet arrived at definite convictions."
Of course, one cannot remain in a state of permanent doubt about everything, and skepticism is not a position one unilaterally adopts with regard to all claims. After all, one may be a skeptic of global warming, or one may be skeptical of the global warming skeptics. It all comes down...
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