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The mind has its illusions as the sense of sight; and in the same manner that the sense of feeling corrects the latter, reflection and calculation correct the former.

Pierre-Simon Laplace
Science, Reflection, Sight
Pierre-Simon Laplace (2012). “A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities”, p.115, Courier Corporation
The mind has its illusions as the sense of sight; and in the same manner that the sense of feeling corrects the latter, reflection and calculation correct the former.