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Out of ‘spite’ Donald Trump insists he won the presidential election, despite mountains of evidence to the contrary. Donald Trump insists he won the presidential election, in spite of mountains of evidence to the contrary. Do you read both sentences the same way? “Despite” and “in spite of” are both prepositions meaning the same thing: in fact, Despite and Associated Press Stylebook entry for “in spite of” says, simply: “ Despite means the same thing and is shorter.” Sign up for CJR's daily email And yet. “In spite of” has a slightly more defiant connotation: not j...

Licensed from Shutterstock // Fizkes Skeptics delight in doubt, and that earns them a bad rap. To the untrained ear, they come across as negative, even confrontational. Sure, you can take it too far like the pure skeptics who follow the old-school philosophy: nothing can be known with certainty. They disbelieve everything that’s not empirically provable. Thoughtful skepticism follows a more practical approach. If a piece of fruit looks, smells, and tastes like an orange, we can conclude it as such without empirical evidence from chemical composition. It’s less extreme than its pure...