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afterward try to make out what gives each step such validity as
it possesses. When we first begin to reflect upon our thoughts,
we find that we already firmly believe a good many things,
such, for example, as that ordinary flame is hot. Now belief is
essentially satisfactory; and the state of Cartesian doubt is mere
pretence or self-deception. For real doubt is most distressing,
and nobody can pass from the naturally satisfied state of belief
to a state of distressing doubt, unless some still stronger belief
forces him to doubt. We cannot pass from satisfaction to dissatisfaction

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