
Episode 2: Descartes’s Meditations: What Can We Know?
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Is There Something Qualitatively Different About Dreaming?
Wright: We know that sometimes we can be misled, right? Like you look at something from a distance and you think it's blue, but it's really green. And thet more importantly, his critical that you can dream and have dreams that are so real that you can't distinguish them. I think this is where we get into the whole methodological part othis, which is to say, the presupposition of doubt. The idea is to get at a foundation right? So the idea is to doubt as much as possible.
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