Shattering a Cartesian Sceptical Dream

Scepticism about external world knowledge is frequently claimed to emerge from Descartes’s dreaming argument. That argument supposedly challenges one to have some further knowledge — the knowledge that one is not dreaming that p — if one is to have even one given piece of external world knowledge th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stephen Hetherington
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2004-06-01
Series:Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
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Online Access:http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/14703/13468