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>That feel when you finish reading The Mysterious Stranger and realize that Mark Twain was a solipsist.

>> No.1900998

I'm not sure I realized that at all but it's been a couple years again since I read it.
Anyway: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqi5F5MqqTQ
Check this out, I really like it. Haven't watch the whole movie though, shame on me.

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1901011

>mfw I have yet to hear a convincing argument against solipsism

but this isn't /phi/, so I don't care to hear one either

>> No.1901028

>>1901011
Couldn't you just apply Occam's razor?

>> No.1901037

>>1901011
>mfw I haven't heard a convincing argument against my personal worldview
>I don't want to hear a convincing argument against my worldview
ftfy

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>>1901011

>mfw I can't believe it's not butter

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>>1901028
nope

>>1901037
>implying /lit/ is going to construct a convincing argument and not just typescream at each other like a bunch of atheist philosophy majors

>>1901067
it's not, it's nutella

>> No.1901095

>>1901011
Wittgenstein would like to have a word with you

>> No.1901100

>>1901095
I'm sure he'd like a lot of things, like to not be dead

lol

>> No.1901140

>>1900998
that was fucking good

>> No.1901170

>>1901011
I wish I could punch you through the internet.
http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Philosophy/axioms/axioms/node43.html

>> No.1901181

>>1901170

That's not a convincing argument at all. And it's given in a really childish, hostile manner.

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>>1901170
except for the part where he ignores the simple fact that he might be wrong, and cannot know if he's wrong

>> No.1901225

>>1901185

Going to have to agree here. The guy basically says "alright look I can't disprove this idea's validity but it makes a lot of assumptions and fuck those guys they're childish twats".

If he actually provided a reason it was ethically flawed beyond "there are probably a lot of narcissists who think this way" or an actual problem with the concept beyond "it's ugly" he might have been able to convince me. It's the philosophical equivalent of Dawkins' bashing of Christianity, in that it fails to convince anyone who did not already subscribe to the proposed concept because of its unashamed bias and lack of evidence or support behind key claims.