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... premises , except one , is a proposition that one can attribute to Descartes , with powerful support from the text . The exception is premise ( 6 ) below . Descartes needs a somewhat more flexible criterion of knowledge than the one ...
... premises , except one , is a proposition that one can attribute to Descartes , with powerful support from the text . The exception is premise ( 6 ) below . Descartes needs a somewhat more flexible criterion of knowledge than the one ...
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... premises , for necessarily false premises entail any conclusion you please . And we must have premises that are not necessarily true , because no necessarily true premise entails a contingent proposition . Now why is any contingent premise ...
... premises , for necessarily false premises entail any conclusion you please . And we must have premises that are not necessarily true , because no necessarily true premise entails a contingent proposition . Now why is any contingent premise ...
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... premises of the dream argument are immediate consequences of the everyday conception of what dreams are , to- gether with the judgmental theory of perception . I believe that these five premises are incontrovertibly true propositions ...
... premises of the dream argument are immediate consequences of the everyday conception of what dreams are , to- gether with the judgmental theory of perception . I believe that these five premises are incontrovertibly true propositions ...
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PRELIMINARY EXPLANATIONS ON THE NATURE | 3 |
THE ARGUMENT WITH CEPHALUS | 36 |
THE ARGUMENT WITH THRASYMACHUS | 46 |
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