Shawn

It could not be proven false in the same way the set of all sets cannot contain itself. Or another way to frame the issue is if you were born in a com...

Well, the ability to learn more, establish norms, and do all sorts of things would be moot for a solipsistic being that lives in a world full of certa...

I really wish I could answer this question, as you seem to have picked out the essential feature of the OP being how is reality "co-ordinated" with th...

True, I should have just left it as logical space.

In regards to QM. I believe, given my limited understanding, that the wave-function is inherently metaphysical by nature. I don't know if it's a top-d...

Interesting how this discussion has evolved. I think, aether's modern understanding under the logical positivists would be 'logical space'. Does this ...

To go all Zen here and answer a question with another question, are law's by which we govern ourselves also a form of consensus-driven ritualism or ic...

This is some form of overgeneralizing in my mind. I've long been trying to elucidate the notion of rationality in the form of emotional reasoning. We ...

So, I'm going to polish up everything I have stated thus far. 1) A solipsist lives in a world full of certainty. 2) Epistemologically, Cogito ergo Sum...

Recollecting a bit, I seem to see more and more of Trump's... humanity? The fact that he choose to give a history lesson on the fourth of July was ini...

Ditto.

Yes, you're on point here. These conditions are multifaceted in the Tractatus. Spinoza's pantheism and necessitarianism, Schopenhauer's theoretical eg...

Sorry that I can't address the entirety of your post, given my limitations here. The point with the domains analogy was that the solipsist can only do...

A solipsist cannot doubt because they are trapped in their own world. Epistemically closed off, hermetically sealed, thus doubt cannot arise because i...

And, this is why solipsism was/is (at least in my mind) thought of as a valid idea that one can hold, what cannot be doubted is the fact that one is d...

OK, before we agree, I wanted to raise the issue of 'domains' with @"Janus" but, was too busy trying to reach some common ground... The point with dom...

True, but, imposing a stipulative definition on a generic one to make the logic fit is basically cheating. I use solipsism not stipulatively here... T...

Just wallows...

Are there any unanswered questions in your mind about epistemic solipsism and how it can be countered by doubt leading to the conclusion that if a per...

Yeah, pretty much. About how every one of us goes about in life, I suppose.

I can counter this by providing the 'Will'. In a dream where one is cognizant that one is dreaming, everything that happens is dictated by a sense of ...

Yes, I'm glad we are on the same page finally... What do you mean?

Isn't that a metaphysical claim? I believe Wittgenstein addressed this issue of private experiences or some such in the Investigations with his Privat...

I don't think that the solipsist can experience genuinely new experiences. The boundary between doubt and certainty is rather explicit for a solipsist...

I don't think there are degrees of certainty. It's a binary situation here, or at least for the sake of this thread, epistemic closure is guaranteed f...

Yes, the world horizon or what Wittgenstein calls the limits of one's world is expanded by the process of doubting. Now, how can a solipsist doubt if ...

I don't understand. The point I am making can be thought analogously to a dream where a person self is in play and experiences are synthetically conju...

Because epistemically, the solipsist is one and the same with the 'world'... I don't think there's much confusion about that statement, or not?

Renamed the thread. Hope others might find interest in it.

Well, to be honest this idea originated from my studies of Wittgenstein's Tractatus, mostly. In that the limits of my world are the limits of my langu...

I suppose then this thread title should read: An epistemological proof of the external world. Does that sound better?

Then I suppose you can do away with the Evil Demon and simply treat doubt as the main issue here. I suppose I can rewrite the conclusion as follows: A...

Best of luck to her on the movie business, if I recall correctly.

Aftershocks all day today where I'm at.

Given that this is a philosophy forum, and I'm assuming that the OP is talking about philosophy, then I'm going to throw my two cents out there and st...

Just a reality check. With a BA in anything but engineering or some hard science, you're not going to find a "great job" nowadays. My friend went to B...

You're a lawyer, so what you bitchen about?

7.1 magnitude earthquake near me... Will we get a 8-9 one? Oh dear.

Anything but philosophy.

To go to college for a degree in philosophy, doesn't make sense in my mind.

But, you understand the issue?

Would you ever consider suicide?

Wallowsome.

Not true, drugs, prostitutes, the "low-life" is always an option.

But, it's true in that philosophers should restrict themselves to descriptive measures, normative measures are best left to science and the like. Unle...

This is profound. In a manner more profound than what any philosopher has dared to say. Kudos, for making such a statement!

Big Earthquake oncoming... 6.6 yesterday, 5.4 today...

Hmm, the force is strong in this one.

Worst July 4th in my living memory.

On face value I surmise that this makes sense. But, the issue is that suicide, even in a deterministic universe is still self-harm. You can't really g...