Is the statement "Claims demand evidence" always true?

[bennyboy]

I don't know how you can resist what seems to me to be an untenable slide into solipsism, given this view.

Because I'm sensitive to context. In the context of living my daily life, I haven't stumbled on a good reason for a solipsistic outlook-- my goal is to get out of bed in the morning and have an interesting day, and pure solipsism would probably lead me to run down Main Street naked or masturbate on buses just cuz I can. Sounds like fun, I guess, but I like living my days as though they have meaning.

In the context of determining absolute truth, though, all that goes out the window. In context of mundanity, it doesn't MATTER what underlies it all. Frankly, if I found out I was in the Matrix or in a computer simulation, I'd probably still want to get up, enjoy a challenging job, and bang the wife a couple days a week. But by discussing what's outside that context, we are attempting to apply what is experienced to what underlies experience. This seems like a pretty pointless exercise (in a logical sense, not in a pragmatic one).