pyrrhonist skepticism
You set opposing accounts side by side and give them equal weight until neither can be affirmed, and then — this is the whole move — you stop trying to decide. Not denial; suspension. Sextus Empiricus, in the Outlines of Pyrrhonism, describes what those who practised it reported next: tranquility followed the suspension the way a shadow follows a body. They had gone looking for the truth of the matter and found their peace in the giving up of the search instead.