Philosophy A-Level
Dreams versus waking experience
What Dreams versus waking experience means in Philosophy A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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A contrast showing that dreams and imaginings are discontinuous and responsive to our wishes, whereas waking experience is stable, predictable and shared.
Topics that use Dreams versus waking experience
- Perception as a source of knowledge (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Alleged inference
- Argument from hallucination
- Argument from illusion
- Best explanation reasoning
- Direct realism
- Disjunctivism
- Hallucination
- Idealism
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