ABSTRACT
Skepsis is a Greek loan word, σκῆψις, meaning view, reflection, or consideration. It is derived from the Greek verb σκέπτεσθαι, which means to “behold” or “reconnoiter”; σκέπτεσθαι is a variant of σκοπεῖν, meaning “to regard.” In Danish, Skepsis is the act or disposition of holding one’s judgment in reserve or doubt.1 The term is especially related to philosophy and the Greek school of skepticism founded by Pyrrho of Elis and recorded by Sextus Empiricus. The defining feature of Greek skepticism is the idea that nothing can be known for certain or that conceptions of absolute truth and falsity are untenable. This connotation inflects the common Danish use of Skepsis as the questioning of common assumptions and unproven assertions.2
