Problem of Other Minds - Metaphysical Solipsism

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. Proponents of this view argue that the world outside one's own mind cannot be known and indeed might be nonexistent.

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