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The Evil Demon and the Dream Hypothesis
Philosophers have formulated possible scenarios for why we could be mistaken about everything that we think is the case. So in addition to the evil demon, there's the dream argument that everything is actually just a dream. The one that I think is really tricky is the hypothesis that you can't trust your memory of the past. You can get as radical as actually doubting, seriously doubting, the two plus two equal four.