adjective
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deeply
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In the past, the medical profession has been deeply sceptical about the value of healing.
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Now most of these teams have been disbanded, and many of those involved sound deeply sceptical .
highly
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Nevertheless he remained highly sceptical of quantum theory.
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Some well-informed practitioners are highly sceptical of the reliability of corporate betas based on historical data.
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Some, like Faraday, were highly sceptical but prepared to try an experiment or two.
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The Department of Health is understood to be highly sceptical .
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But many Christians have come to believe because they were more sceptical than most.
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Professionals are often more sceptical and reluctant to respond to anonymous referrals - in the light of the above research this is potentially dangerous behaviour.
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A more sceptical view on this issue may be found in Francis and Tharakan 1989.
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However, others are more sceptical of the significance of merely more women in positions of influence in the state.
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Other officials, especially those who observed the operation of the tribunals in the Low Country, were more sceptical .
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Some architects are enthusiastic about the contribution their profession can make to the sustainable housing agenda274 while others are more sceptical .
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Economists have tended to be more sceptical .
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I was very sceptical and, being almost entirely ignorant of the truths of Theosophy, thought Theosophists mad in their beliefs.
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I remain very sceptical about whether people will ever use electronic forms to read novels.
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The railway ghost caused a great stir in Darlington at the time but many were very sceptical about its bonafides.
■ NOUN
argument
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The sceptical argument therefore claims that you can not make sense of the idea of a subject of experience other than yourself.
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It is in danger either of making knowledge impossible or of walking straight into one of our sceptical arguments .
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So the argument we have now reached seems to be a complex defence of the first part of that first sceptical argument.
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In the next section we shall consider three sceptical arguments which are strong enough to be worth taking seriously.
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Hume's sceptical argument has been stated very schematically.
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How then are we to find a conception of mental states other than that on which the sceptical argument trades?
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First we need to look at some distinctions between types of sceptical argument .
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The first and least important distinction is between local and global sceptical arguments .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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His attitude towards all religion is sceptical .
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When I started this investigation I was sceptical .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But health union leaders remain sceptical , and fear services could be hit if the mall fails to take off.
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But the business community's sceptical about whether bartering would ever work on a larger scale.
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However, others are more sceptical of the significance of merely more women in positions of influence in the state.
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Hume's sceptical argument has been stated very schematically.
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If necessary put together a group of people who you know will be sceptical and try the presentation out on them first.
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Many are sceptical of the coroner's verdict of suicide.
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Marxists are sceptical of such claims and see the furtherance of class interests as of prime importance.
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Unlike Colin, who remains slightly sceptical , Mister C espouses the McKenna message with an evangelical fervour.