On 10 Jun 2015, at 16:56, John Clark wrote:
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 Kim Jones <[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 agree. Solipsism is an ultra-pathetic thought, unless you interpret
solipsism in Kim's sense, which is God solipsism, which logically does
not only NOT making the other disappearing, but it makes the other
like doppelganger à-la Washington/Moscow type, except that the split
occurred a much longer time ago.
But I would not follow Kim to call that solipsism, which is usually
the more naive idea that "I" am actually dreaming of the others, and
that they are sort of zombie images.
Bruno
John K Clark
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