An idea from Meditations on First Philosophy

Your senses are there to tell you what helps or harms your body, not what things really are. Heat and pain near a fire show that something in the fire causes them, not that the fire holds anything like the feeling. A star looks no bigger than a candle flame.

From Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes

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