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Refutation of the idealism to solipsist pipeline by modus tollens:

P1: Solips -ism
> Break the word into its component parts, coherent grammatically correct sentences be fucked, this is logic, not grammar.
P2: No -ism
> "The One Truth" is a conceit which ignores that truth, down to its etymology of vows made under trees, requires at least some Two, for correspondence or coherence. Parmenides provided a refutation of "the One" in his seventh argument in Plato's dialogue with him. Furthermore, to suggest 'there is no external world' itself is an admission to this, because an 'external world' is necessary for 'thereness', which by common definition is about space and time. In turn, given no "thereness", there can be no -isms to be "there" in the first place.
C: No solip-.
> There is no self, only a variety of body-frames/body-windows out of which Being is peering (Averroes, Spinoza, Shankara, Schopenhauer). These body-frames have views which are the necessary reflection of their particular historical and material conditions (Marx, Hegel).