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Journal articles on the topic "Skeptic"

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Shermer, Michael. "The Skeptic's Skeptic." Scientific American 303, no. 5 (2010): 86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican1110-86.

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Grams, Timm. "Skeptic Encounters Skeptical Movement." Journal of Anomalistics / Zeitschrift für Anomalistik 21, no. 1 (2021): 47–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.23793/zfa.2021.47.

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This is the experience report of a skeptic who encounters the skeptical movement. The field of activity of this society is the promotion of scientific and critical investigations in an open discourse. But soon he discovered inconsistencies. The internal customs of the community deviates from the original intentions. Conspicuous are groupthink, self-conceit and the inability to define clear goals. The main reason for the inconsistencies are certain basic principles: metaphysical naturalism and its concept of truth. There are ways out of these difficulties. First steps in a new direction become
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Stojanović, Pavle. "Can a skeptic be pious and why would he be? Lessons from ancient Pyrrhonism." Belgrade Philosophical Annual 37, no. 2 (2024): 65–74. https://doi.org/10.5937/bpa2402065s.

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The Pyrrhonian skeptics argue that we should suspend belief about everything because, according to them, there are mutually exclusive accounts for and against every object of investigation, and because there are no good reasons to prefer either of the two positions. They also think that this suspension results in ataraxia, a mental state in which the skeptic is free from all unnecessary disturbance. Since ataraxia is also meant to apply to the matters pertaining to religion, it would seem to follow that the skeptic would be disinterested in taking any kind of position towards piety. But, this
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Chabot, Dana. "Thomas Hobbes: Skeptical Moralist." American Political Science Review 89, no. 2 (1995): 401–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2082433.

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Thomas Hobbes is usually held to have been a skeptic in matters of religion and morality. I accept the claim that there is a distinctive skeptical strain in Hobbes' thought but argue that his skepticism informs his moral vision, rather than depriving him of a conception of morality. As evidence for this reading, I situate Hobbes in a tradition of “skeptical moralism,” along with Montaigne and certain other Renaissance figures. As opposed to moral skeptics, skeptical moralists think of moral agents as divided selves, pulled in one direction by law and another by conscience. Skeptical moralists
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Schwab, Whitney. "Skepticism, Belief, and the Criterion of Truth." Apeiron 46, no. 3 (2013): 327–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/apeiron-2012-0026.

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Abstract This paper deals with Pyrrhonian skepticism. It argues that the central argument presented by Jonathan Barnes in favor of the view that skepticism precludes the possession of any belief fails. In brief, Barnes maintains that, because skepticism requires suspending judgment whether criteria of truth exist, no skeptic can, consistently with her skepticism, possess a criterion of truth; this entails, he argues, that no skeptic can make any judgments about anything and, hence, cannot come to possess any beliefs. I evaluate this argument in two ways: first, if we understand criteria of tru
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Nordby, Halvor. "Skepticism and Internalism." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 39, no. 1 (2009): 35–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cjp.0.0039.

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The skeptical Dream argument appeals to the possibility of dreaming. The skeptic holds that states of being awake are subjectively indistinguishable from possible dream states and that this means that we do not know that we are awake. This, the skeptic then claims, means that we have to accept that we do not have external world knowledge.It is natural to assume that there must be a connection between the Dream argument and epistemic internalism, the view that a belief is justified for a given person if and only if the person has cognitive access to all the factors that are needed for the belie
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Sgaravatti, Daniele. "In Conversation with the Skeptic: Contextualism and the Raising of Standards." International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 3, no. 2 (2013): 97–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/221057012x630704.

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I begin by describing the solution to the problem of skepticism propounded by contextualists, which constitutes the background of the rest of the paper. I then address the question of what happens when a skeptic and a non-skeptic are confronted in dialogue to the standards in play for correct knowledge ascription, on the assumption that contextualism about knowledge is right. I argue against Keith DeRose that there are reasons, both intuitive and theoretical, to conclude that the standards will be raised in such a way as to make the skeptic’s denials of knowledge true. Next, I argue, again aga
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Zivotic, Pavle. "Why does urban interpretation of pyrhonism has a greater chance of success than rustic?" Theoria, Beograd 58, no. 3 (2015): 87–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/theo1503089z.

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Delineation of the skeptical way of thinking and vision of life, from ordinary people (idiotes), academics and dogmatic is important. After that, we can start to (by Sextus) search and make sense of the good life, which is for skeptics achieving ataraxia. To restraint from the judgment is crucial for skeptic. For the correct setting of the problem and possible solutions, we come to two interpretations, rustic and urban. In my opinion, urban has a greater chance of success because rustic interpretation collapses into an academic, and does not meet the four desiderata which we have set as a requ
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Collier, Mark. "The Humean Approach to Moral Diversity." Journal of Scottish Philosophy 11, no. 1 (2013): 41–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jsp.2013.0046.

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In ‘A Dialogue’, Hume offers an important reply to the moral skeptic. Skeptics traditionally point to instances of moral diversity in support of the claim that our core values are fixed by enculturation. Hume argues that the skeptic exaggerates the amount of variation in moral codes, however, and fails to adopt an indulgent stance toward attitudes different from ours. Hume proposes a charitable interpretation of moral disagreement, moreover, which traces it back to shared principles of human nature. Contemporary philosophers attempt to locate examples of moral variability that cannot be accomm
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Gleick, Peter H. "Is the Skeptic All Wet?The Skeptical Environmentalist." Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 44, no. 6 (2002): 36–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00139150209605930.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Skeptic"

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Britton, Wesley A. (Wesley Alan). "Mark Twain: "Cradle Skeptic"." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1990. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330830/.

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Critics discussing Mark Twain's early skepticism have, to date, confined their explorations to short studies (articles or book chapters), brief references in passing, or buried their insights in discussions on other topics. Other critics ignore Twain's atheistic statements and see his beliefs as theistic or deterministic. Others ascribe his attitudes in the "dark writings" to late life disappointments. This study demonstrates that Twain's later attitudes towards religion, determinism, social reform and institutions were products of his family heritage, his social environment, and his early rea
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Seyler, Amber Dawn. "Prove It climate change films and the skeptic /." Thesis, Montana State University, 2009. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2009/seyler/SeylerA0509.pdf.

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Thesis (MFA)--Montana State University--Bozeman, 2009.<br>Typescript. Chairperson, Graduate Committee: William Neff. I'm here in Glacier... is a DVD attached to the thesis. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 27).
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Hasanoglu, Kaplan Levent. "The skeptic's dogmatism: a constructive response to the skeptical problem." Diss., University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1144.

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The problem of philosophical skepticism relates to the difficulty involved in underwriting the claim that we know anything of spatio-temporal reality. It is often claimed, in fact, that proper philosophical scrutiny reveals quite the opposite from what common sense suggests. Knowledge of external reality is thought to be even quite obviously denied to us as a result of the alleged fact that we all fail to know that certain skeptical scenarios do not obtain. A skeptical scenario is one in which we have neurological occurrences just like any normal situation in which we actually perceive spatio-
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Kaiser, Jonas Verfasser], Markus [Gutachter] Rhomberg, Mike S. [Gutachter] [Schäfer, and Monika [Gutachter] Taddicken. "Spheres of Skepticism - The Integration of the Climate Skeptic Counterpublic Within the German Networked Public Sphere / Jonas Kaiser ; Gutachter: Markus Rhomberg, Mike S. Schäfer, Monika Taddicken." Friedrichshafen : Zeppelin Universität, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1125711914/34.

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Schwarz, Jonathan. "Skeptical Perceptions." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1302454184.

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Sapeta, Mxolisi. "Skeptical erections." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/7224.

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This collection of poems is an interrogation of the self - turbulent urban experiences, fear, betrayal, mistrust, unfulfilled sexual desires - made with plain language, truthfulness, subtlety and humour. The poems are reflections of New Brighton township where the poet was born, they mirror his experiences of family life, the streets and the juxtaposed characters he encountered as an artist, drinking partner and lover. These experiences shift between broken family lives, passionate short-lived romances, heated artists' debates during gallery exhibitions, shebeens and dangerous midnight homecom
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Bruzina, David Arata. "Sextus Empiricus and the Skeptic's Beliefs." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/9604.

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In his Outlines of Skepticism, Sextus Empiricus claims that the Pyrrhonian Skeptic can live without holding beliefs. According to the 'Rustic' interpretation of this claim, Sextus holds that the Skeptic lives without beliefs of any kind. According to the 'Urbane' interpretation, Sextus' claim concerns only a restricted category of beliefs. I discuss each interpretation in the context of Sextus' broader philosophical stance, and argue for an Urbane interpretation. On this view, Pyrrhonism represents a practicable stance towards the world.<br>Master of Arts
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翁若愚 and Yeuk-yu Yung. "Suspension of judgement: Agrippa andepoche." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B42576568.

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Yung, Yeuk-yu. "Suspension of judgement : Agrippa and epoche /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42576568.

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Carr, Wylie Allen. "The faithful skeptics conservative Christian religious beliefs and perceptions of climate change /." Diss., [Missoula, Mont.] : The University of Montana, 2010. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-05202010-090318.

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Books on the topic "Skeptic"

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Scott, Holden. Skeptic. St. Martin's Papaerbacks, 2000.

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Scott, Holden. Skeptic. St. Martin's Papaerbacks, 2000.

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Gripp, Andreas. Gullible skeptic. Harmonia Press, 2001.

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Snively, Susan. Skeptic traveler: Poems. David Robert Books, 2005.

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Richards, R. Scott. Answers for the skeptic. Word for Today, 2002.

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K, Boyd Edward, ed. Letters from a skeptic. Victor Books, 1994.

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Farmer, Frank. Autobiography of a skeptic. S.O.M., 1987.

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Michael, Shermer, ed. The skeptic encyclopedia of pseudoscience. ABC-Clio, 2002.

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Freudenthal, Gideon, ed. Salomon Maimon: Rational Dogmatist, Empirical Skeptic. Springer Netherlands, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2936-9.

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Dyer, Nathan Andrew. From the mind of a skeptic. Xlibris, 2010.

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Book chapters on the topic "Skeptic"

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Worsnip, Alex. "The skeptic and the climate change skeptic." In The Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429326769-55.

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Crews, Frederick, and Kelly Bulkeley. "Dialogue with a Skeptic." In Dreams. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-08545-0_24.

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Smith, Geoffrey S., and Brent C. Landau. "The Skeptic." In The Secret Gospel of Mark. Yale University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300254938.003.0005.

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This chapter focuses on the arguments of Quentin Quesnell, who was the first scholar to accuse Morton Smith of forging the manuscript that he claimed to have discovered. In 1973, Smith's definitive study of his discovery at Mar Saba finally appeared in print, published with Harvard University Press under the title Clement of Alexandria and a Secret Gospel of Mark. What had until then been discussed mostly in private could now be studied and evaluated by anyone, be they specialists in biblical studies or curious laypersons. In his 1975 article for the prestigious academic journal Catholic Bibli
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"Preface." In Reluctant Skeptic. Berghahn Books, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781785334597-001.

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"Chapter 2. Reading the War, Writing Crisis." In Reluctant Skeptic. Berghahn Books, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781785334597-004.

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"Chapter 4. Religion on the Street: Kracauer and Religious Flânerie." In Reluctant Skeptic. Berghahn Books, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781785334597-006.

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"Conclusion. Criticism in the Negative Church." In Reluctant Skeptic. Berghahn Books, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781785334597-007.

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"CONTENTS." In Reluctant Skeptic. Berghahn Books, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781785334597-toc.

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"Frontmatter." In Reluctant Skeptic. Berghahn Books, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781785334597-fm.

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"Chapter 3. From Copenhagen to Baker Street: Kracauer, Kierkegaard, and the Detective Novel." In Reluctant Skeptic. Berghahn Books, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781785334597-005.

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Conference papers on the topic "Skeptic"

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Dewangan, Arvind, Hreevatsa D S, Saurabh P. Joshi, Sayak Konar, Drijesh Patel, and P. Lakshmi Harika. "A Skeptical Demeanor Revelation System Fused with Machine Learning Civil Cyber Security." In 2024 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication and Materials (ICACCM). IEEE, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1109/icaccm61117.2024.11059200.

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Alfano, Gianvincenzo, Sergio Greco, Francesco Parisi, and Irina Trubitsyna. "Counterfactual and Semifactual Explanations in Abstract Argumentation: Formal Foundations, Complexity and Computation." In 21st International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning {KR-2023}. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/kr.2024/2.

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Explainable Artificial Intelligence and Formal Argumentation have received significant attention in recent years. Argumentation frameworks are useful for representing knowledge and reasoning on it. Counterfactual and semifactual explanations are interpretability techniques that provide insights into the outcome of a model by generating alternative hypothetical instances. While there has been important work on counterfactual and semifactual explanations for Machine Learning (ML) models, less attention has been devoted to these kinds of problems in argumentation. In this paper, we explore counte
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Schiff, Melvin J., and Bruce McCollom. "Impressed Current Cathodic Protection of Polyethylene Encased Ductile Iron Pipe." In CORROSION 1993. NACE International, 1993. https://doi.org/10.5006/c1993-93583.

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Abstract American Water Works Association Standard C-105 covers the use of 8 mil polyethylene as a protective coating for ductile iron pipe. Some corrosion engineers have been skeptical about this procedure not only because the coating is thin but also because it is not bonded to the metal surface. A large pipeline project provided an opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of the unbonded coating on ductile iron pipe before and after cathodic protection was applied. The project included five contracts totaling 43 miles of steel pipe with a three layer tape wrap and five contracts totaling 4
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McGrane, William K. "Applications of Ozone and Reverse Osmosis to Provide Water Conservation and Scale Control in Industrial Cooling Water Systems." In CORROSION 1993. NACE International, 1993. https://doi.org/10.5006/c1993-93483.

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Abstract Since the mid 1980's ozone as a cooling tower water treatment has evolved from a curiosity to an accepted water treatment practice. The Cooling Tower Institute (CTI) at the 1992 Spring meeting in Monterey, CA devoted one full afternoon to the topic of ozone in cooling water systems. Many of the water treatment consultants who at first were more than skeptical about the heralded benefits of ozone, now consider it another accepted tool in water treatment. The CTI has already dedicated a chapter on the use of ozone in its compendium on Oxidizing Biocides. The National Association of Corr
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Rudinger, Rachel, Vered Shwartz, Jena D. Hwang, et al. "Thinking Like a Skeptic: Defeasible Inference in Natural Language." In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.findings-emnlp.418.

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Aiken, Robert M. "A Skeptic Assesses the Net as a Resource for Teaching." In Working group reports from ITiCSE. ACM Press, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/349316.571914.

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Johnson, Saul, João F. Ferreira, Alexandra Mendes, and Julien Cordry. "Skeptic: Automatic, Justified and Privacy-Preserving Password Composition Policy Selection." In ASIA CCS '20: The 15th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security. ACM, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3320269.3384762.

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Doguzhieva, Marina. "Pierre Bayle: Religion Ecology Through the Eyes of a Skeptic." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Ecological Studies (CESSES 2018). Atlantis Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/cesses-18.2018.173.

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Elden Wilhelmsen, Marthe, Reyn O'born, Anette Heimdal, and Alexander Ruser. "UNDERSTANDING AND CHALLENGING CLIMATE SKEPTIC ATTITUDES AMONG ENGINEERING STUDENTS THROUGH INTERACTIVE PEDAGOGY." In 25th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education. The Design Society, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.35199/epde.2023.48.

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Arcot, Rohan. "Shifting the Perspective of Climate Skeptics." In 2021 AERA Annual Meeting. AERA, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/1687287.

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Reports on the topic "Skeptic"

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Geib, Christopher W. Skeptical Systems. Defense Technical Information Center, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada422601.

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Al-Suwailem, Sami. Does Blockchain Technology Have Value for Islamic Finance? Islamic Development Bank Institute, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.55780/re24013.

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“Blockchain technology is going to change everything”. This claim was made many times over the past several years in many different forms. And we are still waiting to see the change. Skeptics, like Jesse Fredrik, argue that blockchain is a solution in search of a problem. The technology is yet to prove itself and deliver on the big promises it offered to the public. Except for the highly speculative Bitcoin, skeptics complain, no tangible product is seen yet.
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Mankiw, N. Gregory. A Skeptic's Guide to Modern Monetary Theory. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w26650.

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Lewellen, Jonathan, Stefan Nagel, and Jay Shanken. A Skeptical Appraisal of Asset-Pricing Tests. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w12360.

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Greenlaw, David, James Hamilton, Ethan Harris, and Kenneth West. A Skeptical View of the Impact of the Fed’s Balance Sheet. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w24687.

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Rodriguez, Francisco, and Dani Rodrik. Trade Policy and Economic Growth: A Skeptic's Guide to Cross-National Evidence. National Bureau of Economic Research, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w7081.

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Wachter, Jessica, and Missaka Warusawitharana. Predictable Returns and Asset Allocation: Should a Skeptical Investor Time the Market? National Bureau of Economic Research, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w13165.

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Ajzenman, Nicolás, Martín Ardanaz, Guillermo Cruces, Germán Feierherd, and Ignacio Lunghi. Unraveling the Paradox of Anticorruption Messaging: Experimental Evidence from a Tax Administration Reform. Inter-American Development Bank, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0012975.

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Recent literature highlights a paradox in corruption prevention messaging: instead of reducing tolerance for corruption, such campaigns can inadvertently intensify it by priming the existence of corruption while failing to diminish citizens beliefs about government misbehavior. Building on Cheeseman and Peiffer (2022), which demonstrates that messages focused on combating corruption often backfire among individuals with preexisting negative perceptions of corruption, we posit that an effective strategy to mitigate backfiring involves shifting those pessimistic perceptions before delivering the
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TOTROVA, Z. H. THE TOPIC OF OBJECTIVITY OF KNOWLEDGE AS A SOCIOCULTURAL PROBLEM. Science and Innovation Center Publishing House, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2077-1770-2021-14-1-3-14-21.

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The actualization of this topic is explained by modern information technologies, which center the question of knowledge, as such, before its practical application. The purpose of the article is to analyze the topic of objectivity of knowledge, as a sociocultural problem, involving consideration of the relationship of various forms of skepticism with the sociocultural context. Research methods are philosophical and general logical. Research results. Pyrrhonian skepticism reflects the personal, socio-political and economic crisis of the Hellenistic era. The complete and consistent development of
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Sigmon, Eric. Trump 2.0’s foreign policy in the Americas. Fundación Carolina, 2025. https://doi.org/10.33960/ac_08en.2025.

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President Trump’s second-term foreign policy in the Americas is driven by his America First ideology. He is aggressively pursuing immigration enforcement, embracing economic protectionism, flirting with territorial ambitions, taking a strong stance against transnational criminal organizations, drastically reducing foreign aid, de-emphasizing human rights and anti-corruption, and seeking to counter Chinese influence in the hemisphere. Through the first five months, countries in the hemisphere have had to adjust to a bolder and more controversial Trump than in his first term and are growing incr
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