The Nature of Scepticism

"I wish to propose for the reader’s favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true". - Bertrand Russell, Introduction to Sceptical EssaysIs this an accurate reflection of scepticism? Is it the approach taken by science? Is it paradoxical and subversive?If we apply the above where does that leave claims of the mystical and superntural?

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