Doubt is the subjective condition that belongs to mind which
judges the facts, where the mind is suspended between two or more propositions
and is not able to assent to any of them.
Is doubt necessary to our attainment of knowledge and aspiration to a
higher consciousness? Or is it a
limitation to these, leaving us in mistrust, suspicion or uncertainty and
without belief? Is doubt necessary? Does it exclude faith?
Aristotle
believed doubt to be preliminary to philosophical inquiry and the only means by
which the necessary removal of prejudice may be effected. Bacon
believed that the scholastic proof of a proposition or thesis begins by the
statement of doubts or contrary arguments.
Thomas
Huxley gave the name agnosticism to the state: “of being strictly doubtful towards
all that lies beyond sense-experience.” Pragmatism regards all
reality as doubtful, and truth as perpetually changing with the progress of
human thought.
What do YOU think?
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