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61suspicion — sus·pi·cion n: the act or an instance of suspecting something: a mental state usu. short of belief in which one entertains a notion that something is wrong or that a fact exists without proof or on slight evidence see also reasonable suspicion… …
62uncertainty — I noun ambiguity, ambivalence, chance, confusion, contingency, darkness, desultoriness, dilemma, dimness, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness, equivocation, faintness, feebleness, gamble, hazard, hesitancy, hesitation, improbability, incertitude,… …
63Postmodernist theory — Lyotard, Baudrillard and others Thomas Docherty INTRODUCTION Philosophy has been touched by postmodernism. Philosophy, in the modern academy, is supposed to be the discipline of disciplines: it is philosophy which will be able to gather together …
64doubt — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Indecision Nouns 1. doubt, dubiousness, dubiety; unbelief, skepticism, pyrrhonism, disbelief; agnosticism, irreligion; incredulity, discredit; credibility gap, image spill. See improbability, dejection.… …
65Irreligion — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Irreligion >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 irreligion irreligion indevotion Sgm: N 1 ungodliness ungodliness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 laxity laxity quietism GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 skepticism skepticism …
66faith — 1 *belief, credence, credit Analogous words: assurance, conviction, *certainty, certitude: assenting or assent, acquiescence, agreement (see corresponding verbs at ASSENT) Antonyms: doubt Contrasted words: *uncertainty, skepticism, dubiety,… …
67disbelief — noun 1. doubt about the truth of something (Freq. 3) • Syn: ↑incredulity, ↑skepticism, ↑mental rejection • Derivationally related forms: ↑skeptical (for: ↑skepticism) …
68mental rejection — noun doubt about the truth of something • Syn: ↑incredulity, ↑disbelief, ↑skepticism • Derivationally related forms: ↑skeptical (for: ↑skepticism), ↑incredulous ( …
69skepticism — noun 1. doubt about the truth of something (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑incredulity, ↑disbelief, ↑mental rejection • Derivationally related forms: ↑skeptical, ↑incredulous (for: ↑ …
70Disbelief — Dis*be*lief , n. The act of disbelieving;; a state of the mind in which one is fully persuaded that an opinion, assertion, or doctrine is not true; refusal of assent, credit, or credence; denial of belief. [1913 Webster] Our belief or disbelief… …
