'Don't say that! Death isn't my boyfriend yet. We're just friends. Maybe friends with benefits.'
~ David Grossman
From: A Horse Walks into a Bar (London: Vintage, 2017)
Translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen (2016)
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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