One of foxes, cowardice of curs (58)

[ish mailian]

Solipsism and the Problem of Other Minds

Solipsism is sometimes expressed as the view that "I am the only mind
which exists," or "My mental states are the only mental states."
However, the sole survivor of a nuclear holocaust might truly come to
believe in either of these propositions without thereby being a
solipsist. Solipsism is therefore more properly regarded as the
doctrine that, in principle, "existence" means for me my existence and
that of my mental states. Existence is everything that I experience --
physical objects, other people, events and processes -- anything that
would commonly be regarded as a constituent of the space and time in
which I coexist with others and is necessarily construed by me as part
of the content of my consciousness. For the solipsist, it is not
merely the case that he believes that his thoughts, experiences, and
emotions are, as a matter of contingent fact, the only thoughts,
experiences, and emotions. Rather, the solipsist can attach no meaning
to the supposition that there could be thoughts, experiences, and
emotions other than his own. In short, the true solipsist understands
the word "pain," for example, to mean "my pain."  He cannot
accordingly conceive how this word is to be applied in any sense other
than this exclusively egocentric one.

http://www.iep.utm.edu/solipsis/

On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 8:45 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
> e pluribus Unum
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>  cowardice of curs.
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> http://www.metaphordogs.org/Dogs/entries/coward.html
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