Posted by Alex Hodgson on May 02, 19102 at 07:56:27:

In Reply to: You CAN prove that the evil demon idea is false posted by Annabel on June 24, 19101 at 06:13:34:

But then again, the very fact that you are using this argument to suggest that he does not exist cannot help but be known to him. Therefore, he might have decided that the best way to make us hink that he does not exist - i.e. to deceive us about his existence - is to plant precisely that thought in the minds of people like you, and thus to make us think all the more firmly that he does not exist.
Furthermore, our own self-satisfied belief that we are right may stop us from following the thought through.
You may have noticed that our thouhts provide counter-arguments to each other. Hence, we can never reach a conclusion one way or the other about his existence or non-existence. The ultimate deception, I would say...

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