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Ideas for Anaxarchus, Baruch de Spinoza and Pierre Hadot

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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 5. Interpretation
If the body is affected by an external object, the mind can't help believing that the object exists [Spinoza]
     Full Idea: If the human body is affected in a manner which involves the nature of any external body, the human mind will regard the said external body as actually existing.
     From: Baruch de Spinoza (The Ethics [1675], II Pr 17)
     A reaction: This is like one of Hume's 'natural beliefs', and seems to me a powerful idea. One of the basic questions of epistemology is, apart from the question 'which beliefs can I justify?', also 'which beliefs can I never abandon?' Skip the scepticism?