单词 | metaphysical solipsism |
释义 | > as lemmasmetaphysical solipsism 2. Philosophy. The theory or belief that one's own self or consciousness is all that exists (more fully metaphysical solipsism) or all that can be known (more fully epistemological solipsism). Cf. earlier egoism n. 1. Also: an instance of such a theory; a philosophy of this type.Metaphysical solipsism has rarely if ever been seriously believed by any philosopher; it appears in philosophical debate chiefly in connection with philosophical systems or assumptions (esp. of an idealist kind) alleged by their adversaries logically to imply it. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > subjectivism > [noun] > egoism or solipsism egomismc1730 egoism1785 I-ism1840 solipsism1874 pan-egoism1896 1874 A. 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. a1881 A. Barratt Physical Metempiric (1883) 25 At any rate, Solipsism, if not inconceivable, is in the highest degree incredible. 1884 Contemp. Rev. Feb. 294 As long as we confine ourselves to the world given in experience..we must profess solipsism. 1901 J. McCabe tr. F. K. C. L. Büchner Last Words Materialism 114 Ostwald's view seems, when we follow it to its last consequences, to culminate in that solipsism, or denial of the reality of the outer world,..which Schopenhauer justly called ‘theoretical egoism and lunacy’. 1914 M. Saben Spirit of Life i. 10 The weakness of many idealistic systems of philosophy is that they are, logically, solipsisms. 1929 Monist 39 508 Carnap..affirms nothing at all concerning metaphysical reality, more particularly not denying such reality also to the things of the external order and to the experiences of others, as does metaphysical solipsism. 1972 Rev. Metaphysics 25 683 Such a conception of representations leads to an epistemological solipsism in which our contact with the world that surrounds us is at best tenuous and distant. 2000 S. Priest Subj. in Question iv. 144 Solipsism is an idealist thesis because ‘Only my mind exists’ entails ‘Only minds exist’ and that is a kind of idealism. < as lemmas |
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