  Note then that ‘x suspends judgment as to whether P’ does not merely mean that x neither believes P nor believes that not-P. For if P is a proposition that x has never given any thought to, then it might be true that x neither believes P nor believes that not-P. President Obama neither believes that my mother’s name is ‘Judith’ nor believes that it isn’t, but he is not a skeptic about whether my mother’s name is ‘Judith’. To count as suspending judgment (in the Skeptic’s sense) whether P, it is at least necessary to have given the question whether P some thought. As Barnes 2000: xix, puts it: 