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If Appearances Are Deceitful, Then They Do Not Deserve Any Confidence When They Assert What Appears To Them To Be True.
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If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence
when they assert what appears to them to be true.
-- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD)
-- Pyrrho, xi
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