Skepticism In Inception
Premises and Conclusion
P1: Inception is the act of planting an idea in a person’s mind by entering his or her dreams.
P2: According to René Descartes, it is unachievable for someone who is dreaming to come across the notion that he or she is dreaming.
C: Hence, the main focus of the movie Inception, which is how someone can insinuate an idea into a sleeping person’s mind, is impossible.
Information in the Introduction Paragraph (terms, philosophers, focus, topic)
The movie Inception, produced by Christopher Nolan in the year 2010, is a science fiction film that explores the concept of implanting an idea into a person’s subconscious.
It follows corporate espionage Dom Cobb who extracts information from corporate rivals by entering their dreams.
The story is of Dom, whom is given a the …show more content…
Cartesian Doubt: a form of methodological skepticism associated with the methodology of Descartes.
Skepticism: the attitude of doubting knowledge claims set forth in various areas.
He starts with the dream argument, wherein he claims that his dream and reality often have similar sensations. Therefore, there are no definite signs to distinguish dream experience from waking experience, making it possible that everything he has experienced in “reality” may have simply been dreams.
To increase the scope of doubt, he introduces the evil demon argument, where he assumes that there may be an evil demon whom is deceiving him, giving him a reason to doubt his senses.
He then comes across his famous cogito argument, where he thinks that from the very fact that he is being deceived by an evil demon, that should be proof that he does in fact exist.
Eventually, he reaches the conclusion of “I think, therefore I am,” meaning that the only thing he can know is that he is a thinking being. If he assumes that there is a deceiver, the fact that he is being deceived means he
P1: Inception is the act of planting an idea in a person’s mind by entering his or her dreams.
P2: According to René Descartes, it is unachievable for someone who is dreaming to come across the notion that he or she is dreaming.
C: Hence, the main focus of the movie Inception, which is how someone can insinuate an idea into a sleeping person’s mind, is impossible.
Information in the Introduction Paragraph (terms, philosophers, focus, topic)
The movie Inception, produced by Christopher Nolan in the year 2010, is a science fiction film that explores the concept of implanting an idea into a person’s subconscious.
It follows corporate espionage Dom Cobb who extracts information from corporate rivals by entering their dreams.
The story is of Dom, whom is given a the …show more content…
Cartesian Doubt: a form of methodological skepticism associated with the methodology of Descartes.
Skepticism: the attitude of doubting knowledge claims set forth in various areas.
He starts with the dream argument, wherein he claims that his dream and reality often have similar sensations. Therefore, there are no definite signs to distinguish dream experience from waking experience, making it possible that everything he has experienced in “reality” may have simply been dreams.
To increase the scope of doubt, he introduces the evil demon argument, where he assumes that there may be an evil demon whom is deceiving him, giving him a reason to doubt his senses.
He then comes across his famous cogito argument, where he thinks that from the very fact that he is being deceived by an evil demon, that should be proof that he does in fact exist.
Eventually, he reaches the conclusion of “I think, therefore I am,” meaning that the only thing he can know is that he is a thinking being. If he assumes that there is a deceiver, the fact that he is being deceived means he