PHL 708 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cogito Ergo Sum, Archimedean Point, Thought Experiment
12 Jan 2017
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I must withhold assent from everything i believe. Descartes himself thinks the argument from the unreliability of the senses has limits: Sensory experience under less than optimal conditions vs optimal conditions ( conditions under which your senses are unlikely to lead you into error) The nature of sense perception, under some conditions they are reliable and then less reliable. Therefore, from this argument, you can say that you may trust your senses when you are in your immediate environment, but something outside of this should arise skepticism. In dreams things are a lot more confusing, conscious state is more distinct. Dreams are such that dreams can be as clear and coherent as if we"re awake, you can very much so be gazing at a sheet of paper in your dream as well. I am dreaming because i don"t know how i got here, there is no logical sequence to a dream,
