do you have a degree in philosophy?? if so i have a question.....please help.?

Question

have read that solipsism is also “necessarily incoherent” and “necessarily foundationless” in order for it to make appeal to the rules of logic. And it says the reasonble it is foundationless is because of the language

2. so then why is it that even with this in mind it is still deemed irrefutable? The only thing I can possibly think of is that even though you can prove that there are other minds through the private language argument and show that there has to be a reality through common sense and logic the only reason that the idea of solipsism or brains in a vat even holds up despite all the theories and arguments proving otherwise is because we cant truly know the true nature of reality because we cant rely on our deceptive senses. And if we cant rely on our senses then there is no way that we can prove anything empericaly, and if we cant prove something empericaly then you cant technicaly prove it there. So realy is it that reality does in fact exist? Only we cant prove it empericaly? it seems that solipsism is known to be false and isn’t accepted because it realy only hold up on the technical grounds that you cant prove it empericaly? It would be like asking you to disprove the pink unicorn next to me but with out using your senses. So then realy its not “possible” at all. Its just irrefutable on the technical grounds. It’s a stand point and not a real possibility. Correct

Answer 1

Solipsism paints a certain picture of the universe. It is a picture which is concievable, and may even be true. It is a real possibility.

But if solipsism is true, then everything else is pointless. Nothing you see or do is real or meaningful in any way. It becomes just a mind game.

So either solipsism is true and NOTHING else is, or solipsism is untrue and it is possible that something has a point. This puts it in the same category as nihilism.

You can, if you wish, choose to believe in solipsism or nihilism. You may even be right. But what you cannot do is build a life on those bases. You have nothing to build on.

THAT is why those philosophies are discarded as pointless. Even if they are true, it is useless to waste your time considering them by the very definition of how those philosophies work.