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Quotation from Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies by Rene Descartes
“I will suppose, not an _Infinitely perfect God_, the _Fountain_ of _truth_, but that some _Evil Spirit_ which is very _Powerful_ and _crafty_ has used all his endeavours to _deceive_ me”
Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies, Meditation I, trans. William Molyneux (1680)
Having found that the dream argument leaves arithmetic standing, the meditator adopts the hypothesis of a deceiving spirit to keep his old opinions from reclaiming him.
Citation: "I will suppose, not an _Infinitely perfect God_, the _Fountain_ of _truth_, but that some _Evil Spirit_ which is very _Powerful_ and _crafty_ has used all his endeavours to _deceive_ me" — Rene Descartes, Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies, Meditation I, trans. William Molyneux (1680). (id descartes-meditations-with-objections-q1)
