"that matter" is a judgement call. I'm sure different things matter to me than they do to you.
I don't think we need to require someone to have investigated every truth claim sceptically to be a sceptic.
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Any more than we'd need someone to have faith in every god or spiritual belief to be a person of faith.
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Very much the approach you take to determining whether something is true, regardless of how many things you hold to be true/untrue.
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But earlier you said you get to determine who the sceptics were. Couldn't you and they just have different priorities?
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I don't know what you mean. They either make their truth claims based on evidence or not.
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But who chooses which claims count and which don't?
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The individual decides which truth claims they want to have to positions on.
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So they could hold beliefs which you think are nonsense but they don't prioritise them.
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If they believe in things without evidence, they are not a sceptic. Whether they prioritise them or not.
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If a sceptic does not choose to investigate something enough to have a position on it, they don't have a position on it.
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