About solipsism I think it is useful to distinguish:
- the (ridiculous) *doctrine* of solipsism. It says that I exist and you don't. - the quasi trivial fact that any pure first person view is solipsistic. This makes the doctrine of solipsism non refutable, and thus non scientific in Popper sense. But it gives a genuine sense to the adjective "solipsistic" (as opposed to the ridiculous doctrine). This is related to "methodological solipsism" (cf Peter's post). Of course "methodological solipsism" is not the same as the doctrine of solipsism. Rumors say that Brouwer was really solipsistic. he would have said to its students that he did not understand how they could be interested in its solipsistic philosophy which makes only personal sense ... Russell, when you say "nothing external exist", do you mean "nothing primitively material" exist, or do you mean there is no independent reality at all, not even an immaterial one? (I ordered your book but I am still waiting :) Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
