Believing and Doubting Summary

In Peter Elbow’s “Believing and Doubting” the new idea of the doubting and believing games are brought up. Elbow begins by introducing how he came about with the idea of the doubting game, where he defined it as being similar to critical thinking that's the disciplined practice of trying to be as skeptical as possible with every idea we encounter. He stated that is it the opposite of the believing game,where we're disciplined through practice of trying to be as accepting or welcoming to every idea that we encounter. Elbow goes on to say that we honor systematic skepticism or the doubting game as the best form of thinking. It’s easy to doubt what’s perceived, but the whole point of systematic skepticism is to try to doubt what we find most obvious or true or right.