Academic Skepticism

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This was the school of skepticism founded by Plato; it is also known as "suspension of judgment." Academic Skeptics doubted the possibility of knowledge in any sense, believing that beliefs and opinions could never be completely certain, and therefore suspended judgment on all things. They held that it was better to remain in doubt than to accept hastily a belief that might be false.