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Full Idea
What evidence could be brought if we were asked at this very moment whether we are asleep and are dreaming all our thoughts?
Gist of Idea
What evidence can be brought to show whether we are dreaming or not?
Source
Plato (Theaetetus [c.368 BCE], 158b)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Theaetetus', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [Penguin 1987], p.42
| 2047 | What evidence can be brought to show whether we are dreaming or not? [Plato] |
| 581 | Dreams aren't a serious problem. No one starts walking round Athens next morning, having dreamt that they were there! [Aristotle] |
| 23403 | You know you were dreaming when you wake, but there might then be a greater awakening from that [Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu)] |
| 7285 | Did Chuang Tzu dream he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dream he was Chuang Tzu? [Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu)] |
| 2305 | Waking actions are joined by memory to all our other actions, unlike actions of which we dream [Descartes] |
| 2357 | Dreams must be false because they seem absurd, but dreams don't see waking as absurd [Hobbes] |
| 5365 | Dreams can be explained fairly scientifically if we assume a physical world [Russell] |