More specifically concerning: doubt
pseudaphoristica (4)
29 June 2003, around 8.26.
dilemma.
ataraxy
4 February 2023, around 16.32.
…he did not want to do away with his scepticism, precisely because he wanted to doubt. That is his prerogative. But one should not attribute to him the stupidity that he believed one doubted with necessity, or by the same token what is even dumber, that if such were the case, doubt could be abolished. […]