(December 27, 2015 at 10:32 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: even though solipsism cannot logically be disproven, in order for the premise to be true, multiple other premises with their own complex explanations must be inserted to reconcile it. How can we be separately both the artist and the audience of our own reality? So, sure, you can never prove solipsism to be false, but it would be a leap to believe it is surely true!
The arguments in favor of solipsism I've encountered were more along the lines of "we can't be sure we aren't brains in a vat, ergo we can't be sure of anything".
Fair enough, yeah. Hey, that's some useful worldview you have there., Mr. Brain-in-a-vat. /sarcasm
On the other hand, taking as axiomatic that solipsism is false is *useful*, and allows us to do useful things - like hanging up on solipsists.
