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Ideas for 'Metaphysics', 'On Certainty' and 'Spinoza's Ethics'

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13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 5. Dream Scepticism

581	Dreams aren't a serious problem. No one starts walking round Athens next morning, having dreamt that they were there! [Aristotle]
	Full Idea: Is it really an issue whether things are true that appear to those asleep or to those awake? No one in Libya who dreamt he was in Athens, would set out for the Odeon next morning!
	From: Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1010b09)

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 6. Scepticism Critique

3596	Total doubt can't even get started [Wittgenstein, by Williams,M]
	Full Idea: Wittgenstein remarked that if you tried to doubt everything, you would not get as far as doubting anything.
	From: report of Ludwig Wittgenstein (On Certainty [1951]) by Michael Williams - Problems of Knowledge Ch.14