Through many types of abstraction and analogy-making and inductive reasoning, and through many long and tortuous chains of citations of all sorts of authorities {which constitute an indispensable pillar supporting every adult's belief system, despite the insistence of high-school teachers who year after year teach that "arguments by authority" are spurious and are convinced that they ought to be believed because they are, after all, authority figures}, we build up an intricate, interlocked set of beliefs as to what exists "out there" - and then, once again, that set of beliefs folds back, inevitably and seamlessly, to apply to our own selves.
( Douglas R. Hofstadter )
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