A method of inquiry, not a conclusion. True skepticism applies corrosive doubt equally to all claims, including its own, which is precisely why it cannot generate a political program or a moral hierarchy. A consistent skeptic has no privileged ground from which to issue demands — the acid dissolves everything it touches, including the hand that holds it. In the Restorationist framework, America’s Formative Tradition, genuine skepticism is distinguished from the presuppositional frameworks that borrow its posture while quietly exempting their own conclusions from examination. Skepticism is a useful intellectual discipline; it becomes dangerous only when mistaken for a worldview, or when its name is used to cover frameworks that are its opposite.