@ARTICLE{Kamela_Piotr_The,
 author={Kamela, Piotr},
 number={No 1},
 pages={125-138},
 journal={Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria},
 howpublished={online},
 publisher={Komitet Nauk Filozoficznych PAN},
 publisher={Wydział Filozofii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego},
 abstract={This paper presents a new argument against the statement that all our life can be only a dream. At the beginning the author looks into how Descartes argued for that thesis. The sentence “In all moments of my life I can be wrong about whether I am sleeping or being awake” is especially significant for Descartes’ argument. This author presents an argument against that thesis. He points out that what we colloquially call ‘wakefulness’ is, according to the sceptic, a dream; and what we colloquially call ‘a dream’ is, according to the sceptic, ‘a dream in a dream’, etc. On the basis of this correspondence, the author argues that the sceptic cannot explain, why the transition (in the colloquial sense) between a dream and wakefulness is especially striking and why especially clear perceptions happen only in the period of wakefulness. In the next part the author considers some of possible counterarguments, which the sceptics can raise. The author reviews these counterarguments, and argues that they have been formulated ad hoc or bring about paradoxical consequences. The author stresses however that his arguments have not been offered to show the falsehood of the sceptics’ thesis, but rather to demonstrate the implausibility of the sceptic’s thesis.},
 title={The Argument Against Scepticism From Levels of Dreaming},
 type={Artykuł},
 URL={http://ochroma.man.poznan.pl/Content/134663/PDF/2024-01-PFIL-06.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/pfns.2024.150956},
 keywords={arguments against scepticism, doubts, dream, ordinary language, scepticism},
}