... reason to doubt. Only those beliefs that are absolutely certain, in the strongest sense of the term, will survive Descartes' test, and only such beliefs, he holds, can serve as truly reliable foundations for science. Now when you look out your window you see what you expect to be seen, the road, sidewalk, streetlight, trees, and etc only with suspending your beliefs can you ... to it, we are all like prisoners in an underground cave, placed in chains at birth, and unable to swivel our bodies or heads, and thus focused only on the images projected on a wall of the structure. The images a...

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