On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Solipsism. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Solipsism in a sentence
Solipsism meaning
- The idea that the self is all that exists or that can be proven to exist.
- Self-absorption, an unawareness of the views, needs or desires of others; self-centeredness; egoism.
Synonyms of Solipsism
Solipsism vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Solipsism
- The main meaning on this page is: The idea that the self is all that exists or that can be proven to exist. | Self-absorption, an unawareness of the views, needs or desires of others; self-centeredness; egoism. | Self-absorption, an unawareness of the views, needs or desires of others; self-centeredness; egoism.
- Useful related words include: philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory.
- Possible Dutch translations are: solipsisme.
- In the example corpus, solipsism often appears in combinations such as: of solipsism, metaphysical solipsism.
Context around Solipsism
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 4 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Solipsism
- In this selection, "solipsism" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, metaphysical, main, own, main, narcissism and goes stand out and add context to how "solipsism" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include charge of solipsism to which and concern with solipsism in the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "solipsism" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with solipsism
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
That's some extreme solipsism right there. (7 words)
We loved many of them, and sang songs in celebration of their solipsism. (13 words)
Without such a presupposition it would seem difficult to avoid the pitfall of solipsism. (14 words)
One potential problem with this belief is that it's possible, given Berkeley's position, to find solipsism itself more in line with the razor than a God-mediated world beyond a single thinker. (34 words)
There has been a debate over whether or not Husserl's description of ownness and its movement into intersubjectivity is sufficient to reject the charge of solipsism, to which Descartes, for example, was subject. (34 words)
Imagine how hard it is to deal with a disorder in which one of its most common symptoms turns one’s basic sense of self-preservation into a narrative of vanity and solipsism. (33 words)
Perhaps, you suffer from somnambulism…or perhaps the solipsism that has affected you crippled you, yes…but it also grants you significant powers! (23 words)
Example sentences (17)
Solipsism main Solipsism is the philosophical idea that only one's own mind is sure to exist.
Gianmarco Soresi, a Jewish comic who alternates between silkily feline physicality and frenetic gesticulation, digs into antisemitism, but only as it affects his act. His jokes parody his own solipsism.
Imagine how hard it is to deal with a disorder in which one of its most common symptoms turns one’s basic sense of self-preservation into a narrative of vanity and solipsism.
That's some extreme solipsism right there.
We loved many of them, and sang songs in celebration of their solipsism.
A reliance on confessional monologue — in essence, the posture of the therapist’s couch — worked beautifully in the earlier novels, inscribing their concern with solipsism in the sealed universe of a single voice.
Yet Venezuelans are starving, and to weaponize the fact merely to bash the left represents not only the height of bad taste but also the maximum of solipsism.
No, I think the failure is just a spandrel of his particular “skillset”: greed, solipsism, narcissism and negativity.
Perhaps, you suffer from somnambulism…or perhaps the solipsism that has affected you crippled you, yes…but it also grants you significant powers!
As a metaphysical position, solipsism goes further to the conclusion that the world and other minds do not exist.
From within this sphere, which Husserl enacts in order to show the impossibility of solipsism, the transcendental ego finds itself always already paired with the lived body of another ego, another monad.
Metaphysical solipsism Metaphysical solipsists argue that there are indeed no minds but one's own and that attempting to prove the existence of another mind is futile.
One potential problem with this belief is that it's possible, given Berkeley's position, to find solipsism itself more in line with the razor than a God-mediated world beyond a single thinker.
Solipsism as an epistemological position holds that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure.
There are weaker versions of metaphysical solipsism, such as Caspar Hare's egocentric presentism (or perspectival realism ), in which other persons are conscious but their experiences are simply not present.
There has been a debate over whether or not Husserl's description of ownness and its movement into intersubjectivity is sufficient to reject the charge of solipsism, to which Descartes, for example, was subject.
Without such a presupposition it would seem difficult to avoid the pitfall of solipsism.
Common combinations with solipsism
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of solipsism 4×
- metaphysical solipsism 2×