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==Failure of solipsism==

==Failure of solipsism==

Solipsism fails on the unavoidable concrete experience of the [[reality]] of other minds through the evidence of 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, sensory responses not intended or expected, exposure to surprising new ideas, discovery of limitations of understanding, [[laws of logic]], correction of previously unnoticed errors in reasoning, discovery of things previously inconceivable but [[Truth|true]] and [[fact]]s 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 within a universe that one did not create or generate or maintain and has [[Physics|physical laws]] that cannot be fundamentally altered according to one's will. ''Ergo''''':''' the [[Externality|objective existence]] of the orderly [[universe]] as we [[Senses|perceive]] it can be conclusively [[Proof|proven]], since we can prove that the evidence given by our senses is not an illusion.

Solipsism fails on the unavoidable concrete experience of the [[reality]] of other minds through the evidence of social interactions, parents, family members and community, the phenomena of [[language]] and [[communication]], unexpected occurrences and accident, conflict, [[argument]]s, unavoidable [[environment]]al and social irritations, involuntary distractions, differing states of physical [[health]], sensory responses not intended or expected, exposure to surprising new ideas, discovery of limitations of understanding, [[laws of logic]], correction of previously unnoticed [[error]]s in [[reason]]ing, discovery of things previously inconceivable but [[Truth|true]] and [[fact]]s 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 within a universe that one did not create or generate or maintain and has [[Physics|physical laws]] that cannot be fundamentally altered according to one's will. ''Ergo''''':''' the [[Externality|objective existence]] of the orderly [[universe]] as we [[Senses|perceive]] it can be conclusively [[Proof|proven]], since we can prove that the evidence given by our senses is not an illusion.

Compare [[Natural Law]], [[Falsifiability]] and [[Epistemology]].

Compare [[Natural Law]], [[Falsifiability]] and [[Epistemology]].

[[Category:Philosophy]]

[[Category:Philosophy]]