Solipsism

Domain	Title
Books	Farewell to the Self-Employed: Deconstructing a Socioeconomic and Legal Solipsism (Contributions in Labor Studies, No 41) (reference) God, Suffering, and Solipsism (reference) Henri Michaux : the poet of supreme solipsism (reference) Nabokov, Vian, and Kharms: From Solipsism to Dialogue (Comparative Cultures and Literatures ; Vol. 7) (reference) Rationalized Epistemology: Taking Solipsism Seriously (Suny Series in Logic and Language) (reference) (more book examples)
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Specialty Definition: Solipsism

Solipsism is a metaphysical belief that only oneself exists, and that "existence" just means being a part of one's own mental states - all objects, people, etc, that one experiences, are merely parts of one's own mind. One is like a God, creating the reality in which one exists. Solipsism is logically coherent, but not falsifiable, so it cannot be established by current modes of the scientific method.

Solipsism is a common theme in eastern philosophy. Various interpretations of Buddhism, especially Zen, teach that the entire universe exists only in one's mind.

The classic objection to solipsism is that people die. However, you have not died, and therefore you have not disproved it.

A further objection is that life causes pain. Why would we create pain for ourselves? One response to this is that there may be some reason which we have decided to forget, such as the law of Karma, or a desire not to be bored.

A deeper objection, raised by David Deutsch, among others, is that, since you have no control over the "universe" you are creating for yourself, there must be some unconscious part of your mind creating it. If you make your unconscious mind the object of scientific study (e.g. by conducting experiments) you will find that it behaves with the same complexity as the universe offered by realism; therefore, the distinction between realism and solipsism collapses - what realism calls "the universe", solipsism calls "your unconscious mind", but these are just different names for the same thing: both are massively complex processes external to your conscious mind, and the cause of all your experiences.

External Links

Solipsism and the Problem of Other Minds

Usage Frequency: Solipsism

"Solipsism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Solipsism" is used about 33 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Solipsism

Modern Translation: Solipsism

Language		Translations for "solipsism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		solipsizëm. (various references)

Arabic		‏الأنانة نظرية تؤمن بالأنا فقط. (various references)

Bulgarian		солипсизъм, краен субективизъм. (various references)

Czech		solipsismus. (various references)

French		solipsisme. (various references)

Greek		αυτοκρατία. (various references)

Hungarian		szolipszizmus. (various references)

Italian		solipsismo. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�"�我論 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ゆいがろ�". (various references)

Korean		� 아주의. (various references)

Pig Latin		olipsismsay

Portuguese		solipsismo. (various references)

Russian		солипсизм. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		solipsizam. (various references)

Spanish		solipsismo. (various references)

Turkish		solipsizm, tekbencilik. (various references)

Ukrainian		соліпсизм. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Ancestral Language Translations: Solipsism

Derivations & Misspellings: Solipsism

Derivations
	Words beginning with "solipsism": solipsisms. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Solipsism" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: salipsism, solepcism, solepsism, solipcism, solipism, solipsim, solipsis, solipsisim, solipsistm, soliptism, solisism, sollipsism, sollypsism, solopsism, solypsism. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: Solipsism

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "i-i-l-m-o-p-s-s-s"
	-1 letter: psilosis.
	-3 letters: lissom, miosis, missis, spoils.
	-4 letters: impis, limos, limps, lisps, milos, misos, moils, pilis, pisos, polis, silos, simps, slims, slips, slops, soils, spoil.
	-5 letters: impi, imps, isms, limo, limp, lips, lisp, lops, loss, milo, mils, miso, miss, moil, mols, mops, moss, oils, pili, piso, piss, pois, pols, poms, psis, silo, simp, sims, sips.
	Words containing the letters "i-i-l-m-o-p-s-s-s"
	+1 letter: solipsisms.
	+5 letters: cosmopolitisms, histoplasmosis, impolitenesses, impossibleness, neoplasticisms.
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