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Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity. - Michel de Montaigne
Attribution: Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), French essayist. “Apology for Raimund Sebond,” p. 49, The Essays of Montaigne, vol. II, trans. by E.J. Trechmann, Oxford University Press, New York and London (n.d.). Unreliability of the senses makes everything uncertain.

Categories: Essayist, Senses, Uncertainty

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