Relating to the reading that the students of CC201 have done on Descartes’ work, here is today’s analect:
Although in approaching the flame I feel heat, and even though in approaching it a little too closely I feel pain, there is still no reason that can convince me that there is some quality in the flame similar to this heat, any more than to this pain. I only have reason to believe there is some quality in it, whatever it may be, which arouses in me these feelings of heat or pain. (Meditations, [83][66])
