Apr 14, 2009 · A solipsist doesn't have to ignore reason and logic, his viewpoint can be perfectly logically consistent.

Apr 14, 2009 · Of course, if the alleged solipsist were really a solipsist they wouldn't argue - because they wouldn't concede that there was anyone to argue with (or to concede a point to).

Feb 11, 2015 · The solipsist might come back with the observation that we can be deceived about what we see or remember, and he might point out well-established cases of illusion or bad …

Jun 9, 2008 · Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein explains that the modern world was created by the mathematics of chance. Earlier times had capitalists and …

Nov 14, 2007 · One story Branden told is that Ellis misquotes him as saying "of course I'm a solipsist," when what he'd really said was "of course I'm an absolutist." Anybody …

Aug 5, 2013 · What is rational about that? Why? Why not? You have regularly countered the morality that's derived from man's nature and the sovereignty of each individual mind. A …

Oct 6, 2009 · It may be that some long-term posters to internet forums are inured of the vitriol of such epithets as “nonsense” or “absurd” or “ridiculous” thrown at one’s interlocutor. It remains …

Jun 30, 2007 · The Monster being "Tchesquieroan Premiss," like Grendal a frightening monster indeed. Others may imagine themselves the Wizard, like Smirky Smug Parker Demon the …

Feb 6, 2007 · I am using the term "logic" in the Objectivist sense (this being an Objectivist forum), namely, "the non-contradictory identification of the facts of reality." You are free to develop …

Jul 8, 2010 · My favorite retort to an absurd position was that given by Bertrand Russell about solipsism. In a passage I quoted in ATCAG, Russell said: I once received a letter from an …