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Sleep Story 238 – The Problems of Philosophy

Bore You To Sleep - Sleep Stories for Adults

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The Problem of a Real Table

Our next chapter will be concerned with the reasons for supposing that there is a real table at all. It has appeared that what we really say and feel is merely appearance, which we believe to be a sign of some reality behind. What if the reality is not what appears? Have we any means of knowing, whether there is any reality at all? Such questions are bewildering; it is difficult to know that even the strangest hypothesis may not be true. The one thing that we know about is that it is not what it seems.

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