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Does Descartes exclude madness from his meditations?
For Descartes, is madness fundamentally different to dreaming?
Reading these blog posts (I am unfamiliar with the discussion really), which has a few points against Foucault's analysis that it is ...
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Why does the dream argument posit that the senses are untrustworthy when it's the mind that is being tricked?
According to the wiki of the dream argument, "the act of dreaming provides preliminary evidence that the senses we trust to distinguish reality from illusion should not be fully trusted, and therefore,...
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Does Descartes prove that he isn't dreaming?
I had a midterm question where this was relevant, essentially it was:
"Assuming you're an atheist, how would you prove to Descartes that your last vacation wasn't a dream?"
I put that since ...
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