[On scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss]
[Carl Friedrich] Gauss told his friend Rudolf Wagner, a professor of biology at Gottingen University, that he did not believe in the Bible but that he had meditated a great deal on the future of the human soul and speculated on the possibility of the soul being reincarnated on another planet. Evidently, Gauss was a Deist with a good deal of skepticism concerning religion.
Tags: biology belief deism superstition skepticism meditation reincarnation planet gauss belief-in-bible carl-friedrich-gauss rudolf-wagner skepticism-of-religion
He may actually have been existing in the past and approximating a conceivable future, which brought even the assumption of his immediate perceptions as being in the present into doubt. And thus, he couldn’t—beyond a hint of skepticism—say that he truly existed right now and in this moment, but instead it seemed more rational to assume that he simply existed and nothing more.
Ashim ShankerTags: skepticism ontology solipsism past-and-future past-and-present time-slipping perception-and-reality approximate-truth
To demand the absolute and to be content with absolutely nothing else results in a skepticism.
Bernard J.F. LonerganTags: epistemology skepticism
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