While the two instances just cited concern fantasy, romantic
solipsism is not restricted to the domain of imagination.
Nevertheless, Putnam has recently accepted that talk of mental qualia makes good sense, and thus, his rejection of internal realism now centers on charges of
solipsism and lack of public intelligibility.
This stuff at the heart of the matter is essentially, intellectually primitive and cumbersome, no matter how much power, psychologism, techno-scientism, and modernity it displays: a set of mere opinions made strong by way of any kind of political favoritism does not solve the age-long problem of syllogistic
solipsism and solipsistic syllogism in science and philosophy.
His work does tend toward
solipsism. In this respect, undoubtedly these critics are right.
Therefore, a kind of ethical
solipsism seems to follow from relatively basic Kantian premises.
Solipsism is a philosophical dilemma that is encountered when the idea of separate minds is endorsed (Gergen, 1989; Hansen, 2004; Ryan, 1999).
Yet it is not an example of the
solipsism which is incurably inappropriate in the current global social climate.
A limitation of this approach is illustrated by the impossibility of disproving
solipsism, which we all reject.
Perhaps the most difficult challenge in terms of integrating the various parts of the Tractatus involves Wittgenstein's remarks on
solipsism in the 5.6s.
I've never understood the charge of
solipsism registered against the lyric.
Harold Bloom states, rather disdainfully, that the "fear of
solipsism is greater in him than the fear of not individuating his own imagination" and that this fear is the source of Coleridge's eventual poetic failure.
Pragmatism is first and foremost not philosophical opportunism or unflinching
solipsism, but a religious or spiritual proposition that human beings are suited for belief, that believing leads to a better life, and that if you can't believe in God or Allah in an orthodox fashion, you can still believe in believing.