(August 12, 2009 at 5:35 pm)Kyuuketsuki Wrote: What I actually said was, "No he's not ... it doesn't matter in the slightest what the solipsist claims (we all know that making a claim means sod all unless it's supported by evidence), this is about a real comparison." so I gave more information than you cared to admit I did and the reasoning I gave was entirely valid!You have still not demonstrated that there is less complexity in realism than in solipsism, simply because your allegory does not hold true of solipsism (as Rizomorph rightly pointed out).
Solipsism is a bankrupt philosophy just like metaphysics.
Kyu
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