solipsism
Sign in to saveSolipsism ( ; ) is the philosophical idea that only one's mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist outside the mind.
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Solipsism is the philosophical idea that only your own mind can be known to exist for certain, while everything outside your mind—including the physical world and other people—might not be real or knowable. It matters because it raises fundamental questions about what we can actually know and how we can be confident that anything beyond our own thoughts is real.
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- Varieties
- Metaphysical
- Epistemological
- Methodological
- Main points
- History
- Gorgias
- René Descartes
- Berkeley
- Relation to other ideas
- Idealism and materialism
- Cartesian dualism
- Philosophy of Schopenhauer
- Idealism
- Rationalism
- Philosophical zombie
- Philosophy of identity
- Philosophy of time
- Falsifiability and testability
- Minimalism
- In infants
- Hinduism
- Advaita Vedanta
- Samkhya and Yoga
- Buddhism
- Criticism
- See also
- References
- Further reading
Solipsism ( ; ) is the philosophical idea that only one's mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist outside the mind.
==Varieties== There are varying degrees of solipsism that parallel the varying degrees of skepticism: