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Alsadius comments on How to deal with non-realism? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Alsadius 23 May 2012 03:27:59PM 1 point [-]

Reason without a starting point forms a very, very small closed loop with nothing interesting inside. "Cognito ergo sum" is about the extent of it. In order to do anything interesting, you need to assume that you can rely on your senses at least a little bit, and there's not really very much you can do to examine that belief.