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The Ethical Skeptic | Embargoed Information, Syndicate Anti-Wisdom, & The Mysteries of Life

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The Importance of Ethical Skepticism

The central linchpin of ethical skepticism and this discipline of thinking that I'm trying to formulate here Is a Greek principle of perinistic school of skepticism called epulk. It's the active suspension of disposition, in other words you're not doubting You know, if your neighbor says they saw a two foot tall person in a green derby running across their lawn in a leprechaunYou don't immediately doubt them, you just catalog it and put it in a neutral disposition. That may sit there forever and go nowhere, but there may be something significant that comes from that.

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