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Solipsism

Solipsism is a philosophical idea that only one's own mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism argues that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure and that the external world and other minds cannot be known and may not exist outside of one's own mind. As a metaphysical position, solipsism concludes that the world and other minds do not exist at all.

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Solipsism

Solipsism is a philosophical idea that only one's own mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism argues that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure and that the external world and other minds cannot be known and may not exist outside of one's own mind. As a metaphysical position, solipsism concludes that the world and other minds do not exist at all.

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Solipsism ( i/slpszm/; from Latin solus, meaning "alone", and ipse, meaning "self") is the philosophical idea that

only one's own mind is sure to exist. As anepistemological 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. As a metaphysical position, solipsism goes further to the conclusion that the world and other minds do not exist. As such it is the only epistemological position that, by its own postulate, is both irrefutable and yet indefensible in the same manner.

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