Skepticism

Question 1

ORIGIN Greek

Answer 1

The word ‘skeptic’ originates from the early Greek skeptikos, meaning ‘inquiring, reflective’.

Question 2

SKEPTIC - DISINCLINED TRAIT

Answer 2

A skeptic is disinclined to buy into belief systems or cultural truths because they are standard
and well-accepted without some capacity to test the truth in an objective way.

Question 3

Skepticism as a tool

Answer 3

Skepticism is meant as a tool to weed out bad or incorrect ideas. By being able to question every conceivable idea, including assumptions and “known truths”, skepticism can aim to try to find out
if something is really true or not.
It is skepticism regarding knowledge that gives rise to epistemology.
there were actually two philosophical varieties of skepticism – the Academic Skeptics and the Pyrrhonist Skeptics.

Question 4

dogmatism

M.

Answer 4

dogmatism is blind (uncritical) adherence of a community to the “formal” system of norms and conventions, which constitutes its practice. It is called dogmatic because of its assumption that premises and form of inference can be taken into account as infallible.

Question 5

Word + doctrine

Answer 5

Dogmatic goes back to the Greek words dogma, which means basically “what one thinks is true” and dogmatikos, “pertaining to doctrine.”

To be dogmatic is to follow a doctrine relating to morals and faith, a set of beliefs that is passed down and never questioned