Examples of skeptic

• Yet that rhetoric could no longer be deployed so unproblematically, or if it were it could be targeted by skeptics and opponents.

• A numbers skeptic who made binary comparisons of alternatives could prefer (ii) to (iii), and (iii) to (iv), without giving weight to benefit size.

• But why should the size of the benefit, from the same low baseline, matter to the numbers skeptic?

• A skeptic might question why any moral weight should be given to the decisions and preferences of people who have died.

• This provides welcome sharper focus on numerous points, and tempers more radical views of grammaticalization, though it probably will not convince skeptics.

• We also did not believe our descriptions of mice freely climbing about the underside of water filled cages, would pacify the skeptics either.

• In ranking (i) > (ii) > (iii) > (iv), the numbers skeptic rejects inequality that results from distributing the benefit in multiple increments.

• On the other were the skeptics who sometimes openly disparaged science and at other times more cautiously expressed reservations about the scientific enterprise.