 Nevertheless, there is evidence that at some stage in the school’s history, even if they did not use the term ‘skeptic’, some Academics were skeptics in the sense that they adopted one or both of the two skeptical propositions as the correct philosophical position in propria persona. Whether Carneades endorsed a positions of his own and, if so, which ones is unclear and was already a matter of dispute in the Academy. He is known to have championed different positions on the same question in different contexts. It is plain nonetheless that he prepared the way for his successors to take this step (see below).