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Es ist eine große Versuchung den Geist explicit machen zu wollen.
It is a great temptation to try to make the spirit explicit.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein
From Culture and Value (p.8/8e) (University of Chicago Press) / (Basil Blackwell, 1980)
A phrase in Descartes' First Meditation that translates into English as: "but rather some malign genius". The act of absolute doubt comes into question when Descartes perceives this malicious demon ("an omnipotent, epistemic monster" - Carriero) to deceive him, and yet he does not question its existence as anything more than just a fiction.
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