| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 36592 |
| QUOTATION: | I think nobody can, in earnest, be so sceptical as to be uncertain of the existence of those things which he sees or feels. At least he that can doubt so far, (whatever he may have with his own thoughts,) will never have any controversy with me; since he can never be sure I say anything contrary to his own opinion. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | John Locke (1632–1704), British empirical philosopher. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, bk. IV, ch. 11, sec. 3, p. 631, ed. Peter H. Nidditch, Clarendon Press, Oxford (1979).
Locke’s answer to skepticism. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Locke Collection. |
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