An idea from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Doubting everything first, as Descartes advised, can’t work, because you’d need your own faculties to climb back out. Doubting the senses goes deeper. You only ever meet images of the table, and no argument shows they come from a table outside you.

From An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

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