How do you know whom to trust?

You belive that the sun is much larger than the Earth.

The Earth is a roughly spherical planet that rotates on its axis every 24 hours

And it revolves around the sun once evert 356 days.

You belive that you were born on a particular date,

That you born with to 2 humans parents and that each of your human parents was born on an earlier
date.

You believe that other human being have thoughts and feeling like you do and that you are not
surrounded by humanoid robots.

You believe all of these things and many more, not on the basic of direct observation

Which can’t, by itself, tell you very much about the relative size and motion of the Sun ađ the Earth or
about your own family history.

Or about what goes on in the minds of other humans.

Instead, these beliefs are mostly based on what you’ve been told

Human beings could not pass on knowledge

Human beings could not