doubter

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Religious people: believers & non-believers
anti-evolution
anti-evolutionary
anti-evolutionist
anti-humanist
antichrist
converted
deist
evolutionist
faithful
faithless
irreligiously
libertine
monotheist
mystic
secular humanist
secularist
the laity
theist
theistic
unbelief

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Suspecting & questioning

Examples of sceptic

sceptic
First, sceptics about the possibilities for rapid state transformation are wrong, at least under certain circumstances.
But the real sceptics of the concept question whether, from a political and economic point of view, globalization does in fact have the impact suggested.
But to suppose that there are no correct criteria for assessing the probability of anything is to be a global sceptic.
But sceptics have argued that this may not always be so.
The sceptics of deliberative democracy are justified in their caution.
In response, the sceptic may well be giving an accurate account.
Year 6 is the time for the sceptic who says the scare is exaggerated.
The sceptic's watchword is relevance, but the question then is relevance to what?
What might our particularist sceptic say to these broad transnational and cross-cultural normative and empirical generalisations?
However, questions do arise in the mind of a few sceptics.
In one sense, however, the sceptics do correctly identify one characteristic of the project.
He was aware of the implausibility of internationalism ever gaining a complete victory, and in this sense he was a sceptic.
But he was also that peculiar creature, a convinced sceptic.
Perhaps, as defensive sceptics sometimes muse, our discovery of moral truths can be likened to our investigations of nature.
The sceptic might already be alert, if not alarmed.
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