--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > <snip> > > > Are you taking the position of solipsism? > > > > Just out of curiosity, how would you refute solipsism? > > I wouldn't. It is an extreme philosophical position that is > used as a thinking tool in philosophy. I can't think of a > single great philosophical mind who proposed it as an actuality. > But it is useful as a thought exercise. Guys like me, with > barely enough mental dynamite to blow my nose, have more > pragmatic issues to occupy my mind. I was only interested in > this type of theoretical mental exercise in college.
It's just that you can't really settle the pragmatic issues if solipsism is theoretically possible. >
