Solipsism is the philosophical position that only one’s own mind is certain to exist. It holds that knowledge of anything outside one’s own mind, including the external world and other minds, is uncer
Portrait of George Berkeley by John Smybert, 1727
The dream argument is the postulation that the act of dreaming provides preliminary evidence that the senses trusted to distinguish reality from illusion should not be fully trusted, and therefore, an
The Dream of Human Life, by unknown artist, based on Michelangelo’s drawing The Dream, c. 1533