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Yeah I don't like dealing with other people, either. It's such a hassle...

Not really. Just paranoid. You can be paranoid without being psychotic. If it's a core belief that you pose a danger to the government or some stuff l...

Hanny only believes in himself. I'm wallowing through it slowly.

Why are you paranoid about our government? I was in the military for a brief while, and after I got out, I was constantly paranoid about helicopters f...

He's having a bad day, @"Amity". Cheers.

Not really. Think about a dream world which you inhabit during sleep. You see other people in it who seemingly have an intent of their own. But, the r...

That may be true, but doesn't detract from God ever truthfully answering a question with:

Yeah, well think about it this way. I am omniscient, there is nothing more to know about the "world". Hence, the life of a solipsist is epistemically ...

Imagine if you were a true solipsist, or "God", does God doubt? Wouldn't an omniscient being not even be able to doubt?

All of life? Who's reality? Yours or the unborn fetus?

This sounds very similar to what I read as the antithesis of 'antinatalism', being logotherapy. Even in the most extreme forms of despair and powerles...

Yes, these are all terrible things; but, is this really an unbiased analysis of the world?

What facts?

I'm not sure if what you're saying is factually correct. The majority of marijuana in legalized states is produced locally, as far as I know. The mari...

OK, so is this depression and anxiety speaking or an unbiased and 'objective' analysis of the current state of affairs in the world? What do you mean ...

Well, not only that; but, also the issue of characterizing the life of an unborn fetus, which one never knows really how would unfold, as unworthy of ...

"Gross-overgeneralization," would be the first thing that comes to my mind...

Yeah, and since they can't form coherent sentences, or let alone consent to anything. What I'm saying is that it's not a "good" decision bestowed by a...

Wallowsome.

Please expand on what you mean by a "metaphysical subject"? Another stipulated term I suppose.

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/2452/wittgenstein-and-nominalism

Yeah, one question that lingers in my mind, is whether Wittgenstein advocated nominalism in his latter or early period. (Debatable) Haven't yet read A...

The early Wittgenstein dealt with the problem of universals by advocating an approach that quantified a qualifier of the property of an object. Logica...

'From inside' means only 'as I know things'; I describe those things - something, however, I cannot communicate or express: I try to, by saying I spea...

In case anyone is wondering here is the reading group Fooloso4 is referring to: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/3558/ongoing-tractatus-logic...

So, this opens a can of worms. First, I assume that the only way to address this is through/from an inward-outward view of the matter, as per the G.E....

I just doesn't make sense to ask for consent to live of a newborn baby.

So, to present this issue from calculus, as I approach the limit between "my world" and "the world", there is an infinitesimal joint discontinuity, wh...

Or this: In exploring the theme of Wittgenstein's view of solipsism, G. E. M. Anscombe describes his contrast between what can be expressed (or though...

Hope this helps: Personal horizon.

See if @"Fooloso4"'s comment might make more sense or within the context he is offering?

What makes you say this is a skeptical argument? I think it is along the lines of a claim that epistemic closure is absolute for a solipsist (by the v...

Then please specify, what's the problem in my analysis of claiming that a solipsist (such as a God) is epistemically omniscient?

So, point out what you're having trouble understanding here; because, I don't know exactly where you're having difficulties in understanding my OP.

Here's the dark reality that is America. Laws have to be made explicit and enforced. Take for example the fact that we have within the Declaration of ...

Quite interested, thanks Tim!

Well, yes, there's the issue of hidden processes of the mind that are unknown to the conscious mind, such as intentions, the very existence of dream c...

It follows from assuming from assuming that everything that there is to know is contained within the world. And, if the solipsist self is one and the ...

Maybe I'm writing in Swahili? Everyone else seems to get the idea, about the ambiguity of stating that pure realism coincides with solipsism in the Wi...

Then address the following if you will: A solipsist is one and the same with his or her own world. Epistemically the solipsist lives in absolute certa...

I don't know if you're being facetious or not. The self of course exists, otherwise who's talking here?

OK, I will review what has been said already. Apologies.

StackExchange is a reaalllly good place for these sort of non-argumentative questions: https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/64433/wittgenste...

Yeah, this is pretty much the starting point for any form of spiritualism. Yet, the solipsist is a fictional God if you can extrapolate from what I've...

Sorry, I totally missed your post... The difference between the matrix and a solipsist is in that the matrix still engendered the idea of separate sel...

Yes, and that is an issue worth exploring. The self as we know it in today's Western pop-psy lingo is composed of an ego-ID-and super-ego. I have a ve...

Wallows with finesse.

I'm convinced it does. Here it is again in standard form: A solipsist is one and the same with his or her own world. Epistemically the solipsist lives...

Therefore solipsism or a brain in vat? No, I already expanded on the fact that doubt epistemically presupposes that one is not a solipsist, and hence ...

Well, yes just as the fact that I am doubting cannot be proven false or analogously the cogito ergo sum entails that existence is a prerequisite for t...