solipsism

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Here Beauvoir takes up the phenomenologies of Husserl and Hegel to provide an analysis of intersubjectivity that accepts the singularity of the existing individual without allowing that singularity to justify an epistemological solipsism, an existential isolationism, or an ethical egoism.

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  1. noun Philosophy The theory that the self is the only thing that can be known and verified.
  2. noun Philosophy The theory or view that the self is the only reality.

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  • This position is called solipsism, and I say that the fact of self-consciousness forces us all to be solipsists at heart and from birth. —  Spock Must Die
  • You had thought of solipsism, and imagined the structure to be populated-on your level-by only, terribly, one. —  Gravity's Rainbow
  • Here Beauvoir takes up the phenomenologies of Husserl and Hegel to provide an analysis of intersubjectivity that accepts the singularity of the existing individual without allowing that singularity to justify an epistemological solipsism, an existential isolationism, or an ethical egoism. —  Simone de Beauvoir
  • (The point isn't that Turing thinks that solipsism is a serious option; rather, the point is that following this line of argument isn't going to lead to the conclusion that there are respects in which digital computers could not be our intellectual equals or superiors.) —  The Turing Test
  • (291) Despite this, however, Collingwood is anxious to show this does not entail aesthetic solipsism, as if the artist need not ever concern himself with others. —  Collingwood's Aesthetics
 

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  1. Latin sōlus, alone; see s(w)e- in Indo-European roots + Latin ipse, self + -ism.

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  1. from Latin solus, alone, + ipse, self, + -ism.
 

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/ˈsɑlɪpsɪzm/
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