Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.

— Bertrand Russell, An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth (1940)

Source: https://stanford.box.com/shared/static/phao9711s61u5liv3e22.pdf

From the book's introduction.

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