Zététique (from Ancient Greek: ζητητικός zētētikós, "inquisitive", "keen") is the application of the scientific method when investigating allegedly "paranormal" phenomena.
"[2] The 1876 Larousse dictionary, p. 1479, wrote thus: The name of zététiques, which means seekers, indicates a rather original nuance of skepticism: it is provisional skepticism, it is close to Descartes' idea about doubt as a means, not as an end, as a preliminary procedure, not as a definitive result.
If all skeptics really were zététiques and only zététiques, they would have said with Pyrrho: "We do not arrive at doubt, but at the suspension of judgement" ... skeptics literally mean examiners, people who think, reflect, study attentively; but in the long run they take a more negative than doubtful stance, and has meant that those who are under the pretext of always examining never decide.
Moreover, the name zététiques has remained on the ground of the school that created it; and, despite its wide expansion, which would have helped make the term general for all seekers of truth in all fields, it is exclusively applied to skeptics, and we could even say to Greek skeptics or Pyrrhonists.
[2]Physics professor Henri Broch, who ran the International Zetetic Challenge (1987–2002) with Gérard Majax and Jacques Theodor, and in 1998 founded the Laboratoire de Zététique at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, defines zététique simply as "the art of doubt".