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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
solipsism
noun
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▪ Criticisms of solipsism should therefore count as criticisms of the weak-kneed scepticism embodied in foundationalism.
▪ If finally I become wholly submerged in this solipsism there could be no other rational ethic for me than egoism.
▪ It was a McBealism, too, one that revealed the paradox of her solipsism.
▪ Likewise, a pair of cozy coevolutionary symbionts embracing each other can only seem to lead to stagnant solipsism.
▪ Sentimentality was the defining feature of old Labour's solipsism.
▪ Such solipsism came to him naturally, but he had applied himself to enhancing it as to an art of self defence.
▪ These thoughts about rule-following in the mathematical case can be generalised to provide the argument against solipsism that we are looking for.
▪ What mattered, once they were committed to the huge exercise in architectural solipsism, was its completion.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Solipsism

Solipsism \So*lip"sism\, n. [L. solus alone + ipse self.]

  1. (Ethics) Egotism.
    --Krauth-Fleming.

  2. (Metaph.) Egoism.
    --Krauth-Fleming.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
solipsism

1871, coined from Latin solus "alone" (see sole (adj.)) + ipse "self." The view or theory that self is the only object of real knowledge or the only thing that is real. "The identification of one's self with the Absolute is not generally intended, but the denial of there being really anybody else" [Century Dictionary].

Wiktionary
solipsism

n. 1 (context philosophy English) The theory that the self is all that exists or that can be proven to exist. 2 Self-absorption, an unawareness of the views or needs of others; self-centeredness; egoism

WordNet
solipsism

n. (philosophy) the philosophical theory that the self is all that you know to exist

Wikipedia
Solipsism

Solipsism (; ) is the philosophical idea that only one's own mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist outside of the mind. As a metaphysical position, solipsism goes further to the conclusion that the world and other minds do not exist.

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But by recognizing that all manifestation is in the form of the four quadrants, this tendency to a certain solipsism is carefully guarded against.

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The difficulties only arose when such machines became sufficiently empowered to do whatever they wanted to do, They didn’t go berserk and try to kill all about them, and they didn’t relapse into some blissed-out state of machine solipsism.

The failure of philosophers to transcend their own mental limitations has reduced all their systems to circular arguments, and all their ontologies to Solipsism, however elaborately they have endeavoured to to cloak the fact with sophistries.

He cautioned me, however, to abandon the practice once I matriculated, lest it lead me into scandal, fistula, or logical realism-the philosophy of Maios and Scapulas, which Max declared to be as favored by pederasts as was solipsism by masturbators.

It has sometimes been called multiperson solipsism, despite the internal illogic of that phrase.

Not even this release — or injection of balance — is available to Kepesh: he is lost in a truly lugubrious solipsism, a mere patball of the neuroses which stride unchallenged through his psyche.

Otherwise we will very soon slide into solipsism and subjective idealism, which plays heavily into the hyper-agentic, hyper-masculine, disengaged and dangling subject of the fundamental Enlightenment paradigm.