Skeptical hypothesis

Philosophical skepticism (UK spelling scepticism; from Greek σκέψις skepsis, "inquiry") is both a philosophical school of thought and a method that questions the possibility of certainty in knowledge. It is generally agreed that knowledge requires justification. It is not enough to have a true belief: one must also have good reasons for that belief. Skeptics claim that it is not possible to have an adequate justification.The Greek verb «skeptomia» is an original base for word skepticism and it translates ( to be careful or to reflect ). Nowadays if person answers questions like « What is the absolute knowledge? or how much we can know?» with a pessimistic motifs that means that person belong to spectics. Skeptics are people who are always questioning the information that they receive and always being incredulous.First person who brought a lot of changes in understand term of skepticism was Arcesilaus and at the time when he became the head of Plato’s Academy in Ancient Anthems. Arcesilaus’s influence was that strong that even name of academy was changed to «Academic Skepticism»

Skepticism is not a single position but covers a range of different positions. In the ancient world there were two main skeptical traditions. Academic skepticism took the dogmatic position that knowledge was not possible; Pyrrhonian skeptics refused to take a dogmatic position on any issue—including skepticism. Radical skepticism ends in the paradoxical claim that one cannot know anything—including that one cannot know about knowing anything.

Skepticism can be classified according to its scope. Local skepticism involves being skeptical about particular areas of knowledge, e.g. moral skepticism, skepticism about the external world, or skepticism about other minds, whereas global skepticism is skeptical about the possibility of any knowledge at all. Skepticism can be divided in 4 major types as a : moral skepticism , religious skepticism , metaphysical and scientific skepticism. Those different types are summarizing all of the knowledge in the world. Moral skepticism is a view on thing that don’t exist and they are completely personal believes that can’t be suspended by any judgment. Religious skepticism is a faith-based believe that go against the religious authority and questioning true mechanism of the way how world runs. Metaphysical Skepticism is suspending all investigations including object existence , properties in time and it’s causes , affects and possibilities. The main type of the skepticism which is always being put under the judgment is scientific knowledge that was already proved. Basically it’s questioning the reliability of any knowledge by investigating new hypothesis that can proves something agains certain information. Also this branch is called Empirical Skepticism which is including the information that any information can be argued by the logical possibility of the scenario that given information is not being true. That’s why absolutely any existed knowledge can be argued and questioned by the veracity of this information.

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