Why?
I don't know what you mean. Sceptics don't tend to talk much abt solipsism because they're all about evidence.
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You just need to acknowledge the fact that we can't prove anything exists & accept provisional hypothesis that it does.
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No, "something exists". You believe it the same as I do. It's not provisional, it's definite.
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I call solipsism my "leap of faith". I cannot disprove it, yet I have deny it in order to live well.
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This is the position all rational people are in once they've considered it. Sokal & Bricmont put it well.
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In their refutation of pomo.They say its possible the natural world does not exist but its a reasonable hypothesis that it does
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And because we accept that it does, we can use science to develop medicine and technology & live longer and achieve things.
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Even if we're not really doing any of that. The only alternative is to do nothing and die.
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No, you could lead an entirely selfish life, and end up locked up in an institution.
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You'd still have to assume reality existed to do that. You have to assume reality exists to do anything.
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