Skeptics would have my utmost respect if I was able to learn of their skepticism apart from their own utterance. Someone else telling me about a skeptic will not do, because the communication “He is a skeptic” would only be legitimate if it traces back to the skeptic himself saying or somehow communicating “I am a skeptic.” I can only respect a skeptic who is so convinced of his skepticism that he never engages in the non-skeptic activity of communication and persuasion. In short, I have tremendous revere for the skeptic who so successfully keeps his mouth shut that no one besides him has learned of his skepticism.

The point of my stance may be evident already. The true skeptic doubts all. He must therefore doubt an objective world around him, his own assessing abilities, and his own sense perception. He thinks he thinks, therefore he may be, but even this is a stretch. All may be a projection of his own thoughts. For the skeptic, it is entirely likely that I am a projection of his own thoughts. Therefore, I cannot do him the disservice of showing his skepticism any sympathy or respect as I am merely a projection of him. If I agree with anything he says, I am an aspect of his imagination agreeing with him. I am him unnecessarily agreeing with himself. If I disagree with him at any point, I have made him into a terrible schizophrenic.

Of course, the skeptic may reject the idea that all is a projection of himself, but then he is no longer a skeptic. At that point he becomes arbitrarily skeptical instead of a true skeptic.

I write out of burden for those bound in skepticism. Either cast off your skepticism and let us reason together, or be consistent with your skepticism and remain anonymous to the world.