id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1740 Doubt - Wikipedia .html text/html 2109 303 60 Find sources: "Doubt" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2007) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Doubt is a mental state in which the mind remains suspended between two or more contradictory propositions, unable to be certain of any of them.[1][better source needed] Doubt on an emotional level is indecision between belief and disbelief. The concept of doubt as a suspense between two contradictory propositions covers a range of phenomena: on a level of the mind it involves reasoning, examination of facts and evidence and on an emotional level believing and disbelieving Some doubt may persist, but only to the extent that it would not affect a "reasonable person's" belief in the defendant's guilt. The scientific method regularly quantifies doubt, and uses it to determine whether further research is needed. Doubting Thomas Methodic doubt Reasonable doubt Self-doubt Wikimedia Commons has media related to Doubt. Categories: Doubt ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1740.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1740.txt