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Also, my Dad had to have an emergency surgery in Mexico where he lives, and had to borrow money from basically a stranger, if you can spare a few dollars for his gofundme that would help a ton to increase total happiness on Planet Earth.

This is referencing Descartes's Evil Demon, from Meditations on First Philosophy, a thought experiment designed to give us a way to doubt absolutely everything, including even the laws of arithmetic, since it's possible that such a demon could be deceiving us. He ends up demonstrating that God is necessarily good, so would not allow such a demon to deceive us.

This is referencing Descartes's Evil Demon, from Meditations on First Philosophy, a thought experiment designed to give us a way to doubt absolutely everything, including even the laws of arithmetic, since it's possible that such a demon could be deceiving us. He ends up demonstrating that God is necessarily good, so would not allow such a demon to deceive us.

Philosophers in this comic: Rene Descartes, God