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How do you know you're not dreaming right now?

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Elioenai26 said:
However I disagree with you completely when you say, and I quote: "one assertion is no more valuble than another"....
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I think I might have meant to say valid.


Implicitly defining a term is an unjustifiable leap?

Talk about shooting the entirety of discourse in the head, Elioenai.

Why? Because your whole argument is an "assertion", and a most unqualified assertion at that!
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Both of us are making assertions! That was my point.


Where have I said we should doubt it? I only said that it cannot be absolutely proven that this layer of reality is the real one. That doesn't mean I see any reason to doubt it.

If you're talking about specific layers of reality, then yes - one can sometimes distinguish between dreaming and not-dreaming. If we're talking more broadly, there is no sure way of knowing that this reality isn't just a layer of existence external to another, and we haven't gone through its equivalent of "waking up" yet.

Maybe I'm not being literal enough.
 
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