id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6302 Philosophical skepticism - Wikipedia .html text/html 9786 1132 59 Usually the scenario posits the existence of a deceptive power that deceives our senses and undermines the justification of knowledge otherwise accepted as justified, and is proposed in order to call into question our ordinary claims to knowledge on the grounds that we cannot exclude the possibility of skeptical scenarios being true. History of skepticism in non-Western philosophy[edit] Ajñana (literally 'non-knowledge') were the skeptical school of ancient Indian philosophy. While Jain philosophy claims that is it possible to achieve omniscience, absolute knowledge (Kevala Jnana), at the moment of enlightenment, their theory of anekāntavāda or 'many sided-ness', also known as the principle of relative pluralism, allows for a practical form of skeptical thought regarding philosophical and religious doctrines (for un-enlightened beings, not all-knowing arihants). S. Harris, "Skepticism, Dogmatism and Speculation in the Critical Journal" (1985), in Between Kant and Hegel: Texts in the Development of Post-Kantian Idealism, Translated with Introductions by George di Giovanni and H. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6302.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6302.txt