As you may know, I am taking an occasional irreverent and, I must admit, not too serious, look at terms used in education research.
According to this philosophy, Solipsism:
- Nothing exists
- Even if something exists, nothing can be known about it, and
- Even if something could be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others
To a solipsist, it’s all in the mind... nothing exists outside of it.
Now, since the mind is something, it can’t exist; moreover, if it did, Solipsists can’t know anything about it, so Solipsists could not know that their sense of being, of the Universe, is merely a perception; and, if they did know Solipsism was true, they could not communicate it to others. If they can’t inform others, no one can learn about Solipsism and, naturally, others can not exist anyway, except in their own mind, which, as Solipsists know, does not exist.
So by Solipsist logic, Solipsism does not exist.
Would Wikipedia call this a disambiguation, do you think?
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