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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 361 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SOLIPSISM (See also:Lat. solus, alone, ipse, self)  , a philosophical See also:term, applied to an extreme See also:form of subjective See also:idealism which denies that the human mind has any valid ground for believing in the existence of anything but itself . " It may best be defined, perhaps, as the See also:doctrine that all existence is experience, and that there is only one experient . The Solipsist thinks that he is the one!" (See also:Schiller) . It is presented as a See also:solution of the problem of explaining the nature of our knowledge of the See also:external See also:world . We cannot know things-in-themselves: they exist for us only in our See also:cognition of them, through the See also:medium of sense-given data . In . F . H . See also:Bradley's words (See also:Appearance and Reality): " I cannot transcend experience, and experience is my experience . From this it follows that nothing 'beyond myself exists; for what is experience is its (the self's) states." See IDEALISM; also F . C . S .

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