The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 175 of 254

The feeling is right, the interpretation wrong

The feeling (resistance to compression) is entirely veridical: only the interpretation of the feeling (there is a marble there) is mistaken. He only goes wrong when he misinterprets what it is

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