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- noun American Alternative form of
scepticist .
Etymologies
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skeptic + -ist
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Examples
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July 10, 2008 at 4:52 am skepticist- the horse is not sure itz a horse, or anyone else for that matter.
Can I come live wiv u? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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On the one hand, the line evokes the empiricist/skepticist problem of the tree falling in the forest without an observer.
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This approach ” what Popkin calls the via media of Gassendi, the ˜constructive™ skepticist ” suggests a practicable if approximate understanding of the world is within our grasp.
Pierre Gassendi Fisher, Saul 2005
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