However, I subscribe wholeheartedly to those words of Leibniz, ‘This world may be a phantasm and existence may be merely a dream, but this dream or phantasm to me is real enough if using reason well we are never deceived by it.’ ”
Gobbledygook. If the world itself is a phantasm, in the naturalistic sense, then reason itself is part of the hallucination. To use a hallucination to interpret itself is, by definition, to be deceived by it. In fact, only the deception prevents it from being straight insanity.
