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... awake . I pay strenuous attention to the sounds I hear , the things I see , the smells I smell ; I very carefully ... awake - which is sufficient for saying that I attentively believe that I am awake . But it does not follow from this ...
... awake . I pay strenuous attention to the sounds I hear , the things I see , the smells I smell ; I very carefully ... awake - which is sufficient for saying that I attentively believe that I am awake . But it does not follow from this ...
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... awake even though " I am awake " is corrigible for me and is not entailed by any proposition that is incorrigible for me . The third part of the dream argument , as we have seen , proves that no perceptual proposition is ever known to ...
... awake even though " I am awake " is corrigible for me and is not entailed by any proposition that is incorrigible for me . The third part of the dream argument , as we have seen , proves that no perceptual proposition is ever known to ...
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... awake . For the theory asserts that I can know with certainty that I am awake , only if I can know with certainty that some things I seem to recollect are true . Let my senses , my memory , and my reason corroborate to a high degree of ...
... awake . For the theory asserts that I can know with certainty that I am awake , only if I can know with certainty that some things I seem to recollect are true . Let my senses , my memory , and my reason corroborate to a high degree of ...
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PRELIMINARY EXPLANATIONS ON THE NATURE | 3 |
THE ARGUMENT WITH CEPHALUS | 36 |
THE ARGUMENT WITH THRASYMACHUS | 46 |
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