PHIL 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Omnipotence
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For as long as he cannot tell true from false beliefs, every belief that he is presented with might as well be false. Although not all oh his beliefs are mistaken, any of them can be. Further difficulty with rejecting all beliefs that come from the sense. Some very basic and apparently evident beliefs come from senses. If one were to reject these basic beliefs then one in no. Any crazy people are not reliable for any kind of different from crazy people philosophical theory. Solution instead of acting like an insane person, he imagines the possibility that all his sensory perceptions are parts of a dream. Claims that it is impossible to reliably tell whether one is dreaming or not, since dreams often look very much like reality. The somewhere ideas i have must have come from. It is reasonable to think that they come from real things.