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  1. Oct 2024
    1. know, we could currently be dreaming while thinking we are awake.

      I definitely agree with the idea and the possibility, but I also think that there are distinct determining factors between dreams and real life

    2. one cannot reasonably say that Henry knows the barn is a barn because he could have, by chance, accidentally identified one of the fake barns as a true barn. He fortunately happens to pick the one true barn.

      In all three accounts, the main character just so happens to be lucky at a given moment. I don't think Russell's Case, or the Fake Barn Country provides any new info that the Dharmakirti's does not.

    3. it is only a matter of luck that his belief happens to be true. Hence, Russell concludes that the man cannot be said to know the correct time.

      The fact that there is a 'possible chance' that the man could have looked at his watch a different time, is not sufficient enough to completely disprove Plato's theory in my opinion.