Tradition
Solipsism
Overview
philosophical idea that only one's own mind is sure to exist
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In the original texts
Passages from public-domain books where Solipsism is discussed.
Yet this philosopher was by way of believing that no one else existed. This shows that solipsism is not really believed even by those who think they are convinced of its truth.
Bertrand Russell, Philosophy
states what it is; names the idea; author linked in the graph
It must be confessed that pragmatism, worked in this humanistic way, is COMPATIBLE with solipsism. It joins friendly hands with the agnostic part of kantism, with contemporary agnosticism, and with idealism generally.
William James, The Meaning of Truth
a chapter is titled for it; names the idea
When It is seen through the mind It is called the world of thoughts and ideas, and when It is seen as it is, then It is the One Infinite Being. You must bear this in mind; it is not that there is a soul in man, although I had to take that for granted in order to explain it at first, but that there is only One Existence, and that one the _Âtman_, the Self, and when this is perceived through the senses, through sense…
Swami Vivekananda, Jnâna Yoga, Part II
states what it is
HYL. I do not deny it. PHIL. The brain therefore you speak of, being a sensible thing, exists only in the mind. Now, I would fain know whether you think it reasonable to suppose that one idea or thing existing in the mind occasions all other ideas.
George Berkeley, Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists
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The attempt to correct the environment in fact concludes as an abolition of it in words. The philosophic system becomes a solipsism, a pure lyric expression of the appetites of human nature.
John Dewey, Creative Intelligence
names the idea
Philosophers who discussed Solipsism
- Roger Scruton
- Max Stirner
- H. H. Price
- Hilary Putnam
- Giovanni Gentile
- Edmund Husserl
- Ratnakīrti
- Jan Westerhoff
- Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
- Hitoshi Nagai
- Julius Bahnsen
- Angelo Pirotta
Related ideas
- Ātman (Hinduism)
- Empiricism
- Analogy
- Falsifiability
- George Berkeley
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Philosophical realism
- The World as Will and Representation
- Philosophy
- Two truths doctrine
- Idealism
- John Stuart Mill
- Idea
- Cartesian doubt
- Karl Popper
- Mind–body dualism
- Problem of induction
- Adi Shankara
- The Guardian
- Materialism
- Mind
- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Martin Gardner
- Brahman
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