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The most plausible definition would be something like "to claim that any belief about X is not justified or well supported". Substitute X for "the majority will make truth rather than opinion prevail" or "model M of society/economy is the best" and you have the two skepticisms discussed in the article.

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Can you define ‘skepticism’? It doesn’t seem like skepticism if you suspect certain things can go wrong in a particular society in such-and-such ways or that you need safeguards to keep them from going wrong.

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