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/sˈɒlɪpsˌɪzəm/
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NOUN
- (philosophy) the philosophical theory that the self is all that you know to exist
How To Use solipsism In A Sentence
- The narcissistic presumption of centrality that underpins paranoia here gives birth to semiotic solipsism.
- It seems that transcendental phenomenology inevitably involves solipsism.
- As a clear example of an untestable, unscientific, hypothesis that is perfectly consistent with empirical observations, consider solipsism.
- This conclusion, however, is valid only if Searle is right in claiming that collective intentionality conforms to methodological solipsism.
- Can we drop the alibi of ignorance - the endless insistence that we did not know - and resist the seductive lures of solipsism, of denial, of dissociation?
- I have been toppled by my own monstrous solipsism, hoodwinked by the belief that everything revolves around me. LOVE YOU MADLY
- I love the idea of imbuing the subjective narrative with authority; of defining the universe in a kind of Buddhist solipsism. En|Gender
- Heinz Pagels, the esteemed theoretical physicist, once stated: "If you deny the objectivity of the world, unless you observe it and are conscious of it (as many prominent physicists have), then you end up with solipsism -- the belief that your consciousness is the only one. Robert Lanza, M.D.: Rethinking the Nature of Life
- There were learned papers on Oakeshott's marginalia on Kant, his epistemological separatism, his temporal solipsism, and even his Confucianism.
- Many seem to regard human rights solely in terms of the guarantees they afford us as individuals: underwriting, as it were, the moral and cultural solipsism of the "me generation".