Solipsism
Solipsism
(Lat solus, alone + ipse, self)
(a) MethodologicalThe epistemological doctrine which considers the individual self and it states the only possible or legitimate starting point for philosophical construction. See Cogito, ergo sum; Ego-centric predicament, Subjectivism.
(b) MetaphysicalSubvariety of idealism which maintains that the individual self of the solipsistic philosopher is the whole of reality and that the external world and other persons are representations of that self having no independent existence. — L.W.