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solipsism Metaph.|ˈsɒlɪpsɪz(ə)m| [f. L. sōl-us alone + ipse self.] The view or theory that self is the only object of real knowledge or the only thing really existent. Also, = egoism 1, and in weakened sense.
1874A. C. Fraser Sel. from Berkeley 47 Ueberweg suggests that Berkeley's reasoning implies that we can know only our own notions of what we call other spirits—thus leading, by a reductio ad absurdum, to Egoism or Solipsism. a1881A. Barratt Phys. Metempiric (1883) 25 At any rate, Solipsism, if not inconceivable, is in the highest degree incredible. 1884Contemp. Rev. Feb. 294 As long as we confine ourselves to the world given in experience..we must profess solipsism. 1895Month May 27 Under pain of ‘solipsism’, of being shut up within our own subjectivity. 1978Poetry Aug. 298 The deep underlying motive of Mark Strand's poetry is solipsism or loneliness of the individual imagination. Hence solipˈsismal a.
1892G. M. McCrie Miss Naden's World-Scheme 28 The existence of ‘other selves’, being secondarily inferred, in no way touches the prime fact of solipsismal monism. |