Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Descartes Discourse on Methods Part 4/ Paragraphs 38-39
He also goes into dreams in this section and i think it gets a little confusing. He says that even though someone might have moral assurance about these things, he explains that it is unreasonable for anyone to deny that when you are sleeping you can imagine or see those things differently. I think he is saying that when you dream you might not see things the same way you see them when are you awake, but I'm not sure. He also says how do we not know that our thoughts when we dream are anymore false than our other thoughts when we are awake. I find this interesting because it seems true. I think we really can not tell if our dreams are false or not.
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i think what he is getting at here is that because the thoughts you have in your dreams can be just as real or false as the thoughts you have while awake there is no way to prove it's truth. i think what he means is that thoughts or information in you dreams needs to be evaluated just like any other information to prove its truth. basically nothing can be excepted as truth without first evaluating it for truth.
I agree with you when you say our dreams need to be evaluated just like any other information to prove its truth. I find in weird though because he says we can evaluate ours to determine whether they can be true or not but we can not evaluate whether God is existent. I do not understand how he can let us question other things but not God.
opps..i left out a word in the fourth line...
...I find it weird though because he says we can evaluate our dreams*....
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