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The measurement problem in Quantum Mechanics: Convivial Solipsism [PDF]

EPJ Web of Conferences, 2020
The problem of measurement is often considered an inconsistency inside the quantum formalism. Many attempts to solve (or to dissolve) it have been made since the inception of quantum mechanics.
Zwirn Hervé
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Solideism – a version of solipsism

Analecta Cracoviensia
This paper marks the first extensive attempt to articulate the view I have termed solideism. I begin by exploring various interpretations of solipsism, as solideism represents a particular version of it, and establish a schematic formulation for ...
Adam Olszewski
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The Limits of Language as the Limits of the World: Cormac McCarthy’s and David Markson’s Post-Apocalyptic Novels [PDF]

, 2015
The article examines the correlation between the world and the word in two novels which engage with a post-apocalyptic scenario: David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress (1988) and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006).
Ambroży, Paulina
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Cartesian Subjectivism: Departure of Philosophers in the Modern Age [PDF]

حکمت و فلسفه, 2009
This article begins with a brief description of Descartes' cogito and its effect on man's authenticity and his development. In fact, by establishing the principle of cogito, and analyzing it as the established basis of the universe, he considers human ...
simin esfandiari
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Epistemological Implications of Rejection of Private Language [PDF]

حکمت و فلسفه, 2011
One of the most important and novel philosophical issues proposed by Wittgenstein in his late stage of thought and in his influential book Philosophical Investigations is the issue of private language.
mohammad ali abdillahi, fatemeh farahanian   +1 more
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Berkeley’s Arguments on Realism and Idealism [PDF]

, 2008
We analyse Berkeley's argument that realism cannot be defined, and show that his epistemological assumptions lead to the inevitable conclusion that solipsism is the only definable metaphysics.
Winter, Mr. Blake K.
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Limits, Limitations, and Necessity in Margaret Macdonald

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I offer a contribution to recent work on Margaret Macdonald (1903–1956), a prolific though largely unknown figure in the history of analytic philosophy who applied Wittgensteinian insights to a broad range of issues. Here I examine the development of Macdonald's views with respect to idealism and conventionalism, through the application of a ...
Oliver Thomas Spinney
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The Metaphysical Subject and Logical Space: Solipsism and Singularity in the Tractatus

Open Philosophy, 2018
This essay presents a heterodox reading of the issue of solipsism in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (TLP), out of which the whole of the TLP can be re-read.
Allen M. Curtis
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On Schopenhauer's Debt to Spinoza1

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Schopenhauer offers ‘nature is not divine but demonic’ as a direct rebuttal of Spinoza's pantheism, his identification of ‘nature’ with ‘God’. And so, one would think, he ought to have been immune to the ‘Spinozism’ that became, as Heine called it, ‘the unofficial religion’ of the age.
Julian Young
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Solipsism or a Dream: the Question of Reality in Vera Pavlovna’s Ninth Dream by Victor Pelevin

Filolog
Victor Pelevin often explores the question of reality in his works, as he does in his 1991 short story Vera Pavlovna’s Ninth Dream. This story is frequently interpreted from the perspective of solipsism, a philosophical concept that explains the world ...
Galina-Marija N. Micic
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