Block, SkipCaptcha, Upload, Automoderated users, edit, move, protect
30,891
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Line 5:
Line 5: + + + + + +
paragraph articulating the failure of solipsism based on unexpected experiences and unexpected social interactions with evidence of other minds and bodies and involuntary changes in personal bodily conditions - similar to subjectivism
* [[Epistemological solipsism]]: The idea that the existence of the mind is the only thing that can be conclusively known, and all things external to the mind are unknowable.
* [[Epistemological solipsism]]: The idea that the existence of the mind is the only thing that can be conclusively known, and all things external to the mind are unknowable.
* [[Methodological solipsism]]: The idea that since the self is the only thing that can be conclusively known, then in order to be valid, philosophical belief must be grounded in the individual self and its states.
* [[Methodological solipsism]]: The idea that since the self is the only thing that can be conclusively known, then in order to be valid, philosophical belief must be grounded in the individual self and its states.
Solipsism is similar to [[subjectivism]].
Solipsism fails on the unavoidable concrete experience of the reality of other minds through social interactions, parents, family members and community, the phenomena of [[language]] and [[communication]], unexpected occurrences and accident, conflict, arguments, unavoidable environmental and social irritations, involuntary distractions, differing states of physical health, exposure to surprising new ideas, discovery of limitations of understanding, correction of previously unnoticed errors in reasoning, discovery of things previously unknown to oneself, episodes of dreamless sleep and unconsciousness followed by conscious awareness, and the inescapable conclusion finally that one's own mind is not self-subsistent or self-caused but must have had an unremembered beginning in a universe that one did not create or generate or maintain.
Compare [[Natural Law]].
[[Category:Philosophy]]
[[Category:Philosophy]]