| 1919 | You don't need to learn what you know, and how do you seek for what you don't know? [Plato] |
| 1762 | When someone denied motion, Diogenes got up and walked away [Diogenes of Sin., by Diog. Laertius] |
| 6592 | Academics said that Pyrrhonians were guilty of 'negative dogmatism' [Pyrrho, by Fogelin] |
| 20794 | How can sceptics show there is no criterion? Weak without, contradiction with [Sext.Empiricus] |
| 3064 | When sceptics say that nothing is definable, or all arguments have an opposite, they are being dogmatic [Diog. Laertius] |
| 3604 | When rebuilding a house, one needs alternative lodgings [Descartes] |
| 2294 | I can only sense an object if it is present, and can't fail to sense it when it is [Descartes] |
| 6488 | Locke has no patience with scepticism [Locke, by Robinson,H] |
| 19392 | I don't recommend universal doubt; we constantly seek reasons for things which are indubitable [Leibniz] |
| 2240 | It is a very extravagant aim of the sceptics to destroy reason and argument by means of reason and argument [Hume] |
| 2241 | The main objection to scepticism is that no good can come of it [Hume] |
| 5592 | Scepticism is the euthanasia of pure reason [Kant] |
| 5595 | Scepticism is absurd in maths, where there are no hidden false assertions [Kant] |
| 22780 | It is a rejection of intellectual dignity to say that we cannot know the truth [Hegel] |
| 6945 | Once doubt ceases, there is no point in continuing to argue [Peirce] |
| 22206 | Natural science has become great by just ignoring ancient scepticism [Husserl] |
| 21578 | Global scepticism is irrefutable, but can't replace our other beliefs, and just makes us hesitate [Russell] |
| 22163 | The scandal of philosophy is expecting to prove reality when the prover's Being is vague [Heidegger] |
| 3596 | Total doubt can't even get started [Wittgenstein, by Williams,M] |
| 4160 | One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own beliefs [Wittgenstein] |
| 8805 | Skepticism is false because our utterances agree, because they are caused by the same objects [Davidson] |
| 2566 | You can't debate about whether to have higher standards for the application of words [Rorty] |
| 3252 | Scepticism is based on ideas which scepticism makes impossible [Nagel] |
| 2743 | What is the point of arguing against knowledge, if being right undermines your own argument? [Dancy,J] |
| 3880 | Logical positivism avoids scepticism, by closing the gap between evidence and conclusion [Scruton] |
| 19559 | Contextualists slightly concede scepticism, but only in extremely strict contexts [Cohen,S] |
| 6364 | We can't start our beliefs from scratch, because we wouldn't know where to start [Pollock/Cruz] |
| 3761 | Modern arguments against the sceptic are epistemological and semantic externalism, and the focus on relevance [Bernecker/Dretske] |
| 6590 | Scepticism deals in remote possibilities that are ineliminable and set the standard very high [Fogelin] |
| 19507 | Radical scepticism is merely raised, and is not a response to worrying evidence [Pritchard,D] |