Witch Trials Response

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Implications of Skepticism

Montaigne , in his article , Concerning Cripples , described some implications of skepticism . He was looking at skepticism based on how he sees people react and think in their society especially in his time when suspected witches were persecuted . Montaigne was bothered by how people use their reason in an incorrect manner . Many men and women were being burnt alive by incorrect reasons and many others were being misjudged People often associate events to some people they suspect as witches And because this

relationship they 've created is beyond their reason or incomprehensible for them , they try not to argue about it anymore and believe it as the truth . More disturbingly , they believe this truth when other people speak about it . And when everyone started to speak about it , it already seems to be the absolute truth . Montaigne argues that it is rather absurd to believe such truths ' based on how people give their accounts to it and just because these truths are difficult to understand

Skepticism does not and will not directly give answers to many puzzles Rather , it would give birth to new and more intriguing questions . But that is a good thing because one can get closer and closer to the truth Doubting allows us to discern what is real and what is not from the evidences or information presented to us . By being skeptic , we allow ourselves to have more and new probabilities and possibilities of how things happen . But , though...