Saturday, March 30, 2013

Solipsism

Solipsism

Definition:

Philosophy. the theory that only the self exists, or can be proved to exist

Sample Sentences:

Our own solipsism causes us to see animals as personifying certain human traits.

 
The controversy is a kind of unholy combination of inside-the-Beltway myopia and journalistic solipsism.
 
People go to church to show their solipsism for God.
 
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Paragraph:
 
    No great philosopher has espoused solipsism. As a theory, it is clearly very far removed from common sense.  Solipsism has been expressed and described as "I am the only mind which exists", also, "My mental states are the only mental states."  The foundations of solipsism lie at the heart of the view that the individual gets his own psychological concepts from “his own cases,” that is by abstraction from “inner experience.”  It is consisted of time and space and "my" consciousness.
 
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