| A. We often dream about things that are completely beyond ordinary experience |
B. If you stand nearer a windmill than I do, the two of us will see it differently. |
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| C. You can work out mathematically that sometimes our sense experience must be wrong. | D. People sometimes report seeing things when we know that they must be mistaken. | ||
(A) I take to be not quite right because Descartes thinks the laws of mathematics are not broken in dreams.
(B) looks suspiciously like Berkeley's argument about primary/secondary qualities.
(C) I don't know of this occurring in Descartes, though I think he gets near to it at times.
(D) seems the right answer. Descartes makes this point in discussing what is said by people categorised as insane.
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