Posted: Nov 04, 2013 1:27 am
romansh wrote:SpeedOfSound wrote:
Given this level of conceptual construction, this bit about sense data and experience as central and containing, and given the level of the task, i.e. proving the fundamental nature of reality, there is no proof possible of solipsism. So if you can't prove it and you elect it as the one true way out of an infinite number of possible ways things can be what is the basis for the election? Can't be proof and can't be probability.
So given the constraints on proof that disproves it.
Not sure I understand here SoS
Here's a thought experiment though:
If I were to put a bullet through a solipsist's head (say Little Idiot's) and the universe continued afterwards, would that constitute a falsification that Little Idiot is the source of his solipsist universe?
Nah. It would just be another dead fool.
What I meant is that if you can't disprove or prove anything one way or the other at this deeper metaphysical level then saying solipsism can't be disproved gives it too much credit.
Personally I suspect that this idea of a deeper level is where the nonsense all begins.