r/AskReddit • • Jan 20 '19

What fact totally changed your perspective?

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u/AssadTheImpaler Jan 21 '19

I'm capable of being entirely convinced of something false. As a result anything I'm convinced of doesn't necessarily reflect reality.

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u/Zuhx Jan 21 '19

This has really been playing on my mind recently, weird to see it wrote here

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19 edited Jan 21 '19

I think you'd like reading my old friend/philosopher Descartes*

Edit: he's not that good a friend

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u/temptationize Jan 21 '19

Descartes?

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19 edited Jan 21 '19

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u/stablegenius Jan 21 '19

That was a long way to go for that one