
Episode 2: Descartes’s Meditations: What Can We Know?
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Do You Have a Dreaming Argument?
Mark Manson: One of the arguments against this whole sedure, or this part of the meditation that i have taken to be have some worth is this challenge of dreaming in particular. And it seems to me that what you guys are saying is that it doesn't even matter if his dreaming argument doesn't work, because it's just a stepping stone to this idea of an evil deceiver telling me that even mathematical truths are wrong. He says he still has doubts about the how relevant it is that the dreaming argument be powerful. But for people who are listening to this, who go further into philo sophy, there's a tremendous amount of philosophy motivated by trying to account for the possibility of
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