Descartes 'Dream Argument'

To understand one day that everything you held truth is not what you believed it was, can be frightening. Through one’s lifetime everyone gathers various knowledge, without doubting the nature of knowledge and things surrounding them. How many people in reality doubt their surroundings or even themselves? It is one of question to ask oneself, as to whether what one sees does exist in the exactly same shape and form as our eyes perceive it. We cannot always trust our senses to learn the truth and essence of things. Perception by five senses, bodily or material sensations are also what constitute basis for knowledge known as empirical knowledge. Descartes have denoted empiricism and stated that true knowledge can only come from pure reason. That is, only mind and reason are able to assess true reality in comparison to bodily sensations and corporeal substance. Thus, it could be told that Descartes came to think that everything should put be into doubt, for there is no such things as certain knowledge and everything is disputable. He went as far as contemplating the dream argument that states …show more content…
In some way I can agree with this hypothesis, particularly that our senses are indeed capable of distorting reality and presenting it in a slightly different way. It could be concluded as well, that if our senses are indeed capable of lying then it the dream argument of Descartes would also find its resolution in this notion. However, when I think about the argument there are questions concerning some things for putting everything as dreaming reality. I also think that dream in Descartes’ meditation was used vaguely. For what can be defined as dreaming? Whether dreaming might be physical condition and state of mind, or it was meant to be used a metaphorical, can be argued. However, this argument seems rather fascinating to me, thus in this case I intent to support the