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Ideas for 'General Facts,Phys Necessity, and Metaph of Time', 'Julius Caesar' and 'Meditations'

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11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism

2261	My perceiving of things may be false, but my seeming to perceive them cannot be false [Descartes]
	Full Idea: I now see a light, I hear a noise, I feel heat. Perhaps these things are false, since I am asleep. Yet I certainly do seem to see, hear, and feel warmth. This cannot be false.
	From: René Descartes (Meditations [1641], §2.29)

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 4. Solipsism

2257	I myself could be the author of all these self-delusions [Descartes]
	Full Idea: I myself could be the author of all these self-delusions.
	From: René Descartes (Meditations [1641], §2.24)