2006-10-25 15:18:26 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
George, could you stop being a smartass and ASSUMING that that is what I think? That I'm a solipsist. I am not, I think the idea is absurd, and this is for a RESEARCH PAPER. I need SERIOUS responses. I believe solipsism is absurd, BUT I have to be able to defend that position with the opposite view, and I need to know what that is called.
2006-10-25 15:24:07 · update #1
Just a hunch, I'd say empiricism. If reality and its existence and meaning depend upon your perception and interpretation of it, then it can in no way be tested.
2006-10-25 15:26:09 · answer #1 · answered by Pastor Chad from JesusFreak.com 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Opposite Of Solipsism
2016-12-29 21:29:40 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The opposite of solipsism is realizing that the person next to you and every other person you see is also a solipsist.
2014-08-09 17:57:45 · answer #3 · answered by ? 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think there is an "opposite"...You can consider either objectivisme: « Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away -- Philip K. Dick », or any other theory in contrast with solipsism (realism, idealism, materialism)...
2006-10-25 15:57:24 · answer #4 · answered by Nix 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Define Solipsist
2016-09-28 07:10:44 · answer #5 · answered by darras 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interpretive-objective reality based on Communal Consciousness. Kinda like the shared-minded aliens in Dark City.
2016-03-20 05:22:12 · answer #6 · answered by Megan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sonder: The realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.
2014-09-29 19:25:54 · answer #7 · answered by Maree 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If you're actually looking into this topic, I'd recommend Martin Gardner's "The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener." His first chapter is "Why I Am Not a Solipsist."
2006-10-25 17:42:11 · answer #8 · answered by MathGuy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-04-07 02:34:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Realism, of course. That there is a brute reality that does not depend on any attitude of ours.
2006-10-25 16:00:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋