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Solipsism ( / ˈ s ɒ l ɪ p s ɪ z əm / ( listen ) ; from Latin solus 'alone', and ipse 'self') [1] is the philosophical idea that only one's mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist outside the mind. 6. The Privacy of Experience What then of solipsism? To what extent does the foregoing undermine it as a coherent philosophical hypothesis, albeit one in which no one really believes? Solipsism rests upon certain presuppositions about the mind and our knowledge of mental events and processes. Two of these, the thesis that I have a privileged form of access to and knowledge of my own mind and the thesis that there is no conceptual or logically necessary link between the mental and the physical, have been dea...