Sentence examples for dream argument from inspiring English sources

Alan Dershowitz said from Australia that prosecuting the case against a $183 million payroll "is a dream argument" because the Yankees have "ruined my life," first as a Brooklyn Dodgers fan and now as a Boston Red Sox lover.

There are different ways of construing the dream argument.

The dream argument is a compelling example of this.

Still, the evil genius hypothesis radicalizes the dream argument in two respects.

Two, unlike the weaker reading of the dream argument introduced above, it involves a continuing rather than a temporary form of deception.

After discussing the dream argument, Descartes introduces the possibility of an omnipotent but evil genius determined to deceive us even in our most basic beliefs.

Over the centuries, we have engaged in a series of long arguments around how to promote the American dream — arguments that pit equality against achievement, centralization against decentralization, order and community against liberty and individualism.

Some aggression did show up in non-REM sleep, but in those dream arguments, the dreamer never initiated it.

Dream arguments have been a staple of philosophical skepticism since antiquity and in fact were so well known in the 17th century that in his objections to the Meditations, Hobbes (1641) criticized Descartes for not having come up with a more original argument and boring the reader with the all-too-familiar scenario of dream deception.

except that she suffers skeptical doubts having been swayed by the dreaming argument.

Indeed, it is astounding how someone familiar with Descartes's dreaming argument could have made the latter one.