Friday, November 24, 2006

Solipsism

The word solipsism (Latin: solus, alone + ipse, self) is used for two related yet distinct concepts:

An epistemological position that one's own perceptions are the only things that can be known with certainty. The nature of the external world — that is, the source of one's perceptions — therefore cannot be conclusively known; it may not even exist. This is also called external world skepticism.

A metaphysical belief that the universe is entirely the creation of one's own mind. Thus, in a sense, the belief that nothing 'exists' outside of one's own mind.

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There are only three cars in the car park today.

This makes me happy. Although cars do still come to try to park, can't, do 37-point turns, look bemused, try to use sign language with me through my office window, then drive off when I flamboyantly shrug and make a "like I care" face.

1 Comments:

At 2:21 pm, Blogger newplanet said...

Solipsism? Hmmm... that sounds like a particularly cromulent word to me.

 

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