... scepticism'. This is the belief that normal reality is totally false. This view of the world has been popular from Thales of Miletus' 'everything is water' in 585BC, up to the current day where an alternate reality is addressed in the popular film 'The Matrix'. One of Plato's students was a global sceptic. He would never say anything when there was a question about global scepticism. He would only raise a finger, and that, according to him, was the eternal truth. Thus we can see, even from the outset of the notion, there seems to be a problem - complete impracticality. If someone truly believed that things were not at all as they were perceived, they would not be able to carry out a normal day, as Pyrrho of Elis soon found out when his fellow citizens saw that he was prone to falling down holes. In Descartes' 'Meditations on ...

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