Heidegger

In a message dated 11/25/2007 8:00:11 AM Eastern Standard Time,
jPolanik at nc.rr.com writes:

does this remind you of a certain passage from Descartes’ second
meditation? Today, we often think that this encounter with the
malicious demon of supreme cunning an power is nothing but a literary
device to lend credence to Descartes’ excessive doubt. but, if he had
in mind his lucid dream (or mystical transport or whatever he called
it), he might have realized that all of it might well have been an
illusion — except for his own self-awareness: ‘Si fallor, sum!’.

not only does Descartes believe that the cogito (or as I put it, the
experientio) survive the dream objection, it is a plausible (though
unproven) speculation that Descartes discovered the certainty of the
cogito by experiencing reflective self-awareness in a lucid dream and
pondering the implications of that when he later awakened.

Yes, and that took much cogito post experentio.
Bernard

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