Our healthy sense of skepticism tells us that if we can neither confirm nor disconfirm a claim through independent investigation, then we would be wise to __________

(a) confirm the claim
(b) disconfirm the claim
(c) ignore the claim
(d) have faith in the claim
(e) suspend judgment


e

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