Plato: In the Theaetetus, Socrates asks: “How can you determine whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?” Theaetetus: “Indeed, Socrates, I do not know how to prove the one … Continue reading
Daily Archives: 2011-05-20
Thinking and Arguments
In those days it was more difficult to be reckoned as a thinker because there was no printing press, and it was not an easy thing to take part in such controversies as that between Nominalism and Realism. Anyone who ventured into this field had to be better prepared, according … Continue reading