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The Plain Man Is Familiar With Blindness And Deafness, And Knows From His Everyday Experience That The Look Of Things Is Influenced By His Senses; But It Never Occurs To Him To Regard The Whole World As The Creation Of His Senses.
-Ernst Mach
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The Plain Man Is Familiar With Blindness

Ernst Mach
The Plain Man Is Familiar With Blindness And Deafness, And Knows From His Everyday Experience That The Look Of Things Is Influenced By His Senses; But It Never Occurs To Him To Regard The Whole World As The Creation Of His Senses.
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