#dream-argument

¶ Dream arguments East and West: Descartes, Zhuangzi and the Yoga Vasistha

Three treatments of the same worry. Descartes, Meditations I (1641): there are no sure signs to distinguish waking from dreaming, so the senses can't give certain knowledge. He uses it as a method, a step towards certainty. Zhuangzi, chapter 2: Zhuangzi dreams…