No. Because I define 'sceptic' as 'one who doesn't believe any kind of nonsense.' Not going on self-definitions. https://twitter.com/pogsurf/status/821054607455559680 …
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I'm fairly sure I don't believe in any nonsense but if I did, I wouldn't know it. Helps not to be completely certain abt anything.
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When was the last time you changed your mind? Could you have been believing something that others would call nonsense?
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I think it was when I realised tarot cards didn't work. But I wasn't at all sceptical then. I change my views a lot.Different.
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Why is that different? You believed something which you presumably now think is nonsense. Why can't it happen again?
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I don't believe in things any more. That was a matter of belief - of faith. I had to change my way of thinking.
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I did that. Now I think things are probable,improbable or don't know how probable. I don't have a mindset that 'believes in' things
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I might not be explaining very well. I don't mean I can't be wrong. I can be mistaken. I mean that I approach things differently.
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I think you can be a sceptic on a case by case basis, but to be sceptical about everyting is a very tall order.
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I don't think so. Its an attitude to take to truth claims that matter. Don't often have to use it.
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"that matter" is a judgement call. I'm sure different things matter to me than they do to you.
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I'm talking abt life-affecting truth claims. You can be sceptical about a lot more if you want but I see no need.
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eg If u have a child,it will be important to know whether vaccines cause autism. Best to take a sceptical approach to investigating
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But its a lot of work. I haven't done it in the case of eg '9/11 was an inside job' claims coz I see no need to take it seriously.
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Aren't you now agreeing with me that scepticism about everything is a tall order? You disagreed then.
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I don't think so. Or I didn't mean to. I mean that when I need to assess whether something true or not, I do so sceptically.
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I agree that we're all fallible, this is why I belong to set of people who potentially believe nonsense claims.
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But you don't have to.There aren't that many things u need to believe or not.Things are either established as provisionally true
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provisionally untrue, no reason to think so, varying degrees of probability or 'don't know.'
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I don't bother being sceptical abt eg things my friends tell me abt themselves. I assume them truthful unless given reason not to.
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Its just things like 'does a god exist who can make me survive the death of my brain & torture me for all eternity for wrongthink'
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do vaccines cause autism? Is global warming real? These things I need to investigate coz they're important. I do so sceptically
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