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From: Elias J Theodoracopoulos <ejt1@columbia.edu>
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On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, John Peradotto wrote:

> Fact is I exist. Only me and one other. Nothing else exists, including
> all of you. You are only the dream that a malignant demon (the other
> existent) has placed in my mind. Got that idea from Descartes (who, of
> course, is just part of the dream). And from Ridley Scott's "Blade
> Runner."
>
> One other possibility: I don't exist either. I and my dream are just
> the demon's dream.

A third possibility: ti de tis? ti d' ou tis? skias onar anthro:pos [sc.
esti] (Pi. P. 8. 95-6)

EJTh

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