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The Evil Demon

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Descartes' evil demon: imagine a deceiver powerful enough to fabricate your every experience—even mathematics could then be doubted.

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The sky, this page, two plus three: all could be the demon's stagecraft, fed to a disembodied mind.

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The demon is a doubt-maximizer, not a theology. Descartes builds the strongest opponent he can, on purpose.