PHIL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Evil Demon, World War I, Lucid Dream
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You are currently lying down in bed dreaming about sitting in a lecture hall listening to a lecture: the dreaming argument : (dr1) if you have no way of knowing that tdh is false, then you don"t know that you"re sitting down in a lecture hall listening to a lecture. (dr2) you have o way of knowing that tdh i false. (dr3) so, you don"t know that you"re sitting down in a lecture hall listening to a lecture: the waking hypothesis(twh): You are currently wide awake, sitting watching a lecture: the dreaming argument (concise version) (dr1) if you can"t know that tdh is false, then you don"t know that twh is true. (dr2) you can"t know that tdh is false. So, knowledge about anything you perceive with your senses. i: memories of such perceptions. iii. At least according to descartes: i. ii.
