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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ca5c7354-e98d-4134-a11c-29b761f74f05/F107FBFB-F9B8-4076-8D1B-31EFCA1CBD06/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solipsism&oldid=220900633" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solipsism&oldid=220900633" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solipsism&oldid=220900633"><P><B>Solipsism</B> (<A title="Latin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin">Latin</A>: <I>solus</I>, alone + <I>ipse</I>, self) is the <A title="Philosophy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy">philosophical</A> idea that "My mind is the only thing that I know exists." Solipsism is an <A title="Epistemology" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology">epistemological</A> or <A title="Metaphysics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics">metaphysical</A> position that knowledge of anything outside the <A title="Mind" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind">mind</A> is unjustified. <A title="Philosophical skepticism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_skepticism">The external world</A> and <A title="Problem of other minds" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_other_minds">other minds</A> cannot be known and might not exist. In the history of philosophy, solipsism has served as a <A title="Skeptical hypothesis" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeptical_hypothesis">skeptical hypothesis</A>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F107FBFB-F9B8-4076-8D1B-31EFCA1CBD06/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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