Descartes would maintain that you know this test is not a dream because

A) it is too difficult to be a dream.

B) it is too easy to be a dream.

C) it is simply impossible that it might be a dream.

D) if we examine it with our senses, our memory, and our understanding without finding any conflicting evidence, then we can know we are awake and not dreaming.


D

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