On 6/10/2015 7:56 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 Kim Jones <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Surely it isn't a crime to be a solipsist. What's socially unacceptable
about the belief that you are the only mind and that
"all other minds" are you as well?
The crime is intellectual dishonesty. I don't believe anyone this side of a looney bin
really believes in solipsism except when arguing on the internet or standing in front of
a classroom full of sophomore philosophy students trying to sound provocative.
"I'm a solipsist and I'm surprised more philosophers aren't solipsists."
--- letter to Bertrand Russell
"A solipsist is like the man who gave up turning round because
whatever he saw was always in front of him."
--- Ernst Mach
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