Meaning & use
Solipsists
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People who hold the philosophical belief that the self is the only thing that can be known to exist with certainty.
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Committed solipsists argue that nothing can be proven to exist outside their own minds.
The philosophy seminar debated whether solipsists could ever be persuaded by outside evidence.
A note on using this word
"Solipsism" derives from Latin solus ("alone") and ipse ("self"); the position is often treated as a logical extreme rather than a genuinely held belief.
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