Poll Opening & Closing Times: In the state of Ohio, all polling places will be open from 6:30 AM to 7:30 PM Eastern Time. However, if you are in line at the time of the poll closing at 7:30 PM you are allowed to vote. Next State Constitutional Officer Elections in 2016.
Descartesâ dream argument began with the claim that dreams and waking life can have the same content. There is, Descartes alleges, a sufficient similarity between the two experiences for dreamers to be routinely deceived into believing that they are having waking experiences while we are actually asleep and dreaming.
He is only aiming to doubt, not to reject, his beliefs. So Descartes begins by understanding knowledge in terms of certainty. To establish certainty, he tests his beliefs by doubt. Doubt, then, is the opposite of certainty.If we can doubt a belief, then it is not certain, and so it is not knowledge. Descartesâ understanding of knowledge, certainty and the need for doubt have been strongly criticized.oubt helps make the point and support the arguments. ARGUMENTS FROM PERCEPTION Descartes begins his method of doubt by considering that he has, in the past, been deceived by his senses â things have looked a way that they are not. Things in the distance look small; sticks half-submerged in water look bent; and so on.