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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SIV-SOU |
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SOLIPSISM (Lat. solus, alone, ipse, self) , a philosophical term
idealism which denies that the human mind has any valid ground for believing in the existence of anything but itself. " It may best be defined, perhaps, as the doctrine
solution of the problem of explaining the nature of our knowledge of the external world. We cannot know things-in-themselves: they exist for us only in our cognition of them, through the medium
Bradley 's words (Appearance and Reality): " I cannot transcend experience, and experience is my experience. From this it follows that nothing 'beyond myself exists; for what is experience is its (the self's) states."See IDEALISM ; also F. C. S. Schiller, Mind, New Series (April
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