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in the
results of thinking? Or is it a justified trust that is in no danger of being betrayed or
destroyed‟?
I therefore proceeded with extreme seriousness to reflect on sensible knowledge and the obvious, to
see
whether I could make myself doubt them. The outcome of this extended effort to induce doubt was
that I
could no longer trust sensible knowledge either. Doubt began to spread here and say: “From where
does
this reliance on sensible knowledge come? The most powerful sense is that of sight. Yet when it
looks at the
shadow it sees it standing still, and judges that there is no motion. Then by experiment and
observation after
an hour it knows that the shadow is moving and moreover, that it is moving not by stops and
starts, but
gradually and steadily by infinitely small distances in such a way that it is never in a state of
rest. Again, it
looks at the sun and sees it small, like the size of a quarter; yet geometrical calculations show
results of thinking? Or is it a justified trust that is in no danger of being betrayed or
destroyed‟?
I therefore proceeded with extreme seriousness to reflect on sensible knowledge and the obvious, to
see
whether I could make myself doubt them. The outcome of this extended effort to induce doubt was
that I
could no longer trust sensible knowledge either. Doubt began to spread here and say: “From where
does
this reliance on sensible knowledge come? The most powerful sense is that of sight. Yet when it
looks at the
shadow it sees it standing still, and judges that there is no motion. Then by experiment and
observation after
an hour it knows that the shadow is moving and moreover, that it is moving not by stops and
starts, but
gradually and steadily by infinitely small distances in such a way that it is never in a state of
rest. Again, it
looks at the sun and sees it small, like the size of a quarter; yet geometrical calculations show