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Iain Banks1954–2013

Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion.

Iain Banks on philosophy

The Algebraist (2004), Chapter 5, “Conditions of Passage” (p. 298)

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