We Do Not Describe The World We

Archimedes, That He Might Transport The Entire Globe ... Demanded Only A Point That Was Firm And Immovable; So Also, I Shall Be Entitled To Entertain The Highest Expectations, If I Am Fortunate Enough To Discover Only One Thing That Is Certain And Indubitable.

De Omnibus Dubitandum

Thus Each Truth Discovered Was A Rule Available In The Discovery Of Subsequent Ones.

I Have Concluded The Evident Existence Of God, And That My Existence Depends Entirely On God In All The Moments Of My Life, That I Do Not Think That The Human Spirit May Know Anything With Greater Evidence And Certitude.

Hence Reason Also Demands That, Since Our Thoughts Cannot All Be True Because We Are Not Wholly Perfect, What Truth They Do Possess Must Inevitably Be Found In The Thoughts We Have When Awake, Rather Than In Our Dreams.