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Solipsism (/ ˈ s ɒ l ɪ p s ɪ z əm / ⓘ SOLL-ip-siz-əm; from Latin solus 'alone' and ipse 'self') [1] 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.
We're not saying don't use your Imagination. Anything you don't know the title of. Your wiki or blog. It's probably not internationally famous. If it is, well, go ahead, but let's face it; your blog of cute cats is not internationally famous (three readers is not fame). [1] Your new invention or research paper that will change the world.
Philosopher Brian Leftow has argued that the question cannot have a causal explanation (as any cause must itself have a cause) or a contingent explanation (as the factors giving the contingency must pre-exist), and that if there is an answer, it must be something that exists necessarily (i.e., something that just exists, rather than is caused ...
Ashtrays certainly still exist, but people don't use them as much as they did in the early 1960s, when this Flavio Poli-designed one was made. It wasn't until the middle of the decade when ...
Noneism, in this context, holds that some things do not exist or have no being. [5] There are a few controversial entities in philosophy that, according to noneism philosophy, do not exist: past and future entities, which entails any entity that no longer exists or will exist in the future; people or living things that are deceased; unactualized possibila, which are objects that have the ...
People may imagine, desire or fear something that does not exist. Subcategories. This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total. A.
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An example of such an object is a "round square", which cannot exist definitionally and yet can be the subject of logical inferences, such as that it is both "round" and "square". Meinong, an Austrian philosopher active at the turn of the 20th century , believed that since non-existent things could apparently be referred to , they must have ...