solipsism

brain in a vat

reality

Valentine's Day

Rene Descartes

George Berkeley

self-sabotage

Occam's Razor

herd instinct

cogito

is the idea that other minds are not known, but rather, they are only inferred to exist, an inference which serves as the sine qua non of understanding.

Sigmund Freud stated that other minds are not known, but only inferred to exist. He stated 'consciousness makes each of us aware only of his own states of mind, that other people, too, possess a consciousness is an inference which we draw by analogy from their observable utterances and actions, in order to make this behavior of theirs intelligible to us. (It would no doubt be psychologically more correct to put it in this way: that without any special reflection we attribute to everyone else our own constitution and therefore our consciousness as well, and that this identification is a sine qua non of understanding).'[{Freud, Sigmund. 1995. The Freud Reader p.575 (wiki)

is the notion "I think, therefore you are.."

solipsism, n.All

solipsism