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The double viewpoint doctrine is as useful as it is convenient, for it enables the philosopher to live among the ignorant who believe they inhabit a totally real world as if he shared their belief. Otherwise they might segregate him from his fellows on a charge of insanity and put him in the special institutions built for such cases.

-- Notebooks Category 19: The Reign of Relativity > Chapter 2 : The Double Standpoint > # 65