Analysis Of Rene Descartes On The Dream Argument

“I know for certain that I am standing up; it is absolutely certain that I am; there is not the smallest chance that I am not.”-G.E Moore. Rene Descartes, introduced the Dream Argument, where he believed that we cannot trust our senses because at some point in an individual’s life they might be dreaming and believe that what was occurring during that dream was reality. This argument, was opposed to by G.E Moore where used evidence and knowledge to flip over the dream argument. He finds that Descartes, argument was very inconsistent. In “certainty” G.E Moore, proves that the Descartes belief about the dream argument are false. He uses multiple examples as to why the “dream argument” has multiple holes in its saying.

The Dream argument was started by Rene Descartes, where he proposes the method of doubt, which permits him to consistently question the

Moore states that most philosopher would think in contrast to his argument, when he states “You do not know for certain that you are not dreaming; it is not absolutely certain that you are not; there is some chance, though perhaps only a very small one, that you are.” (E.Sosa, 2000) G.E Moore initiates his evidence by amplifying what an external object essentially stands as when well-defined, which he also calls it “a thing external to our minds”, he states “To say of anything, e.g. my body, that it is external to my mind, means merely that from a proposition to the effect that it existed at a specified time, there in no case follows the further proposition that I was having an experience at the time in question.” (Moore 's Proof of an external world & the problem of other minds, 2008)Which in this case conditions that the external object is unique which might occur minus actuality being professed; and to demonstrate the presence of external objects is to substantiate the existence of an object which would possibly exist without being