It is generally believed that
solipsism is an entirely
hypothetical reality whose possibility is impossible to refute. Well, here's an
epistemological refutation to test that belief:
1a. The human mind develops.
2a. The state of the human mind can only change with
perception to affect its state, or the acceptance of the existence of a body by which it might mature.
2b. The body exists.
3a.
Perception requires a body to mediate the alteration of the mind.
3b. The body exists.
4a. The human mind alters itself.
4b. The human mind is divided in
will, as the
reformative state alters the
conservative state.
4c. The
reformative state and the
conservative state are
differentiated entities.
4d. There are two human minds, which must exist in two seperate spaces, therefore as seperate
conginent existents.
4e. The body exists.
5a. A body is defined by the space or
contingency it assumes.
5b. The body exists.
There is no way in which the human mind can change without the existence of a body, and therefore a spatial world.
Anyone with comments, corrections or critiques, please message me -- I think this argument is pretty solid, but there may be a hole here or there to fill!