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    You literally have no choice. You're stuck in your head with nothing but your own thoughts to rely on. This doesn't mean you trust all of them, but you're always relying on some of them. Even if you try to doubt everything, you're trusting the thought to doubt everything.
    – causative
    Commented Apr 20 at 21:26
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    Don't forget there exist paranoid schizophrenics who are deluded into believing all sorts of unfathomable ideas, of which they are as convinced as the most educated academics are about their ideas.
    – DanielFBest
    Commented Apr 20 at 21:55
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    Suppose you do not try to justify trusting your own thoughts in ethereal generality that ignores what those thoughts are, what condition you are in, and so on. Suddenly, it gets much easier. Your reasoning equivocates on "my thoughts" that refer to different things in different parts. That you need more thoughts to understand thoughts is a dubious idea that leads to infinite regress, we would not understand anything at all if it worked that way. Thoughts better "rely" on something other than thoughts. "There is a way of grasping a rule which is not an interpretation" Wittgenstein, PI §201.
    – Conifold
    Commented Apr 21 at 1:13
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    @Conifold Any plans on translating comments into answers?
    – user66156
    Commented Apr 21 at 14:22
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    "I was left alone in my head without adult supervision."
    – Scott Rowe
    Commented Apr 21 at 20:16