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There is a kind of delusion which would surely be certifiable if it were not so common. It is the belief that the world as we perceive it is the world as it is.
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Cairns-Smith, A.G. (1999). It’s a funny old world. In: Secrets of the Mind. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1510-3_4
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