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The only philosophy that's lonely to win and impossible to argue with.
means The philosophical position that only one's own mind is certain to exist, with everything else—the world, other people—possibly just a projection of it.
from From Latin solus, "alone," plus ipse, "self"—literally "self-alone." The term emerged in modern philosophy, with solipsismus appearing in Latin philosophical writing before passing into English, naming the idea that the self may be all there really is.
- core claim
- Only your own mind is certain to exist
- name origin
- From Latin solus ipse, alone self
- unbeatable
- No proof can refute it from outside
- Wittgenstein's jab
- He argued private language secretly defeats it
- clinical version
- A rare syndrome makes patients deny everyone's reality
for instance
bishop berkeley's idealism — 18th century philosopher argued only minds and ideas exist, not material objects
descartes' cogito ergo sum — 1637 meditation where descartes doubted everything except his own thinking mind