(August 5, 2010 at 4:20 am)tackattack Wrote: Having an overly skeptical and overly pessimistic (or just plain crabby) nature I haven't found (in my experience) to have a positive relevance to something's usefullness in fact predisposing something's positive or negative natures are both biasing and counterproductiveWhat has skepticism got to do with pessimism?
And presupposing things is the opposite of skepticism. The whole point of skepticism is postponing judgement until evidence comes in.