solipsist
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- noun
- /ˈsɒlɪpˌsɪst/
- Specialized
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solipsista
- But the point is that, given the veracity of our perception of a physical world, and how, even shared among us (unless we are all part of a solipsist mind), our working with that particular experience, all of science implies that what we experience as magical perceptions are the result of unconscious events in the brain appearing as conscious, without any hint to the subjective consciousness as to how.
Examples
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It's as if the maintenance of the solipsist view takes more effort than just accepting the physical perceptions as being somewhat representative of a real physical world.
Blog text (2) -
Now, it could be that there are some unknown limitations to our mental capacity to control our mental experiences, so that it may still be that the 'physical' is nothing more than a solipsist perception.
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It's a solipsist's heaven, full of his own dead perceptions.
Fiction book (1992) -
If you're a solipsist, you can pretend I don't exist, he said helpfully.
Fiction book (2000) -
Additionally, given that he is not a solipsist, we may suppose that our neurosurgeon accepts reports from his patient to be enjoying certain inner experiences, mental events that would otherwise remain unknown to him.
Academic text (2017) -
It is often said that there are no true outright solipsists.
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Hopefully this point is uncontroversial, for most people, genuine disbelief in the existence of other minds will be an impossibility, and certainly, the history of philosophy contains no idealists who have been solipsists.
Academic text (2017) -
"It has been a rather fervent desire of mine for some time," Webb wrote in 1968, "to move from what has been called a 'solipsist' position to a more open one." Choosing to write about Kropotkin, one of the most influential political revolutionaries of nineteenth-century Russia, certainly gestured towards the possibility of such an outward turn.
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A true solipsist believes that their own mind is the only thing that can be known for certain to exist.
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In his arguments, he often comes across as a solipsist, focusing solely on his perspective without considering others.
How Self-Centered
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Surface Forms
Morphology
solipsist = solipsism (transparent) = solips + ist
Formed regularly from the noun 'solipsism' with the agentive suffix '-ist', meaning 'one who holds solipsism'.
Etymology
Solipsist comes from the Latin words solus 'alone' and ipse 'self'. So a solipsist is someone who believes only their own mind is sure to exist.