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Solipsism: is an expression for the thesis that the external world is a projection of a subject, and consequently this subject exists as the only one. See also skepticism, certainty, perception, methodical solipsism, internalism, externalism, will, self-attribution, foreign psychological, private language, privileged access.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Edmund Husserl on Solipsism - Dictionary of Arguments

Gadamer I 252
Solipsism/Husserl/Gadamer: It is clear that the lifeworld is always at the same time a community world and contains the coexistence of others. It is a personal world, and such a personal world is always assumed to be valid in a natural attitude. The reflective "I" knows itself as living in purposefulness, for which the lifeworld is the ground. Thus the task of a constitution of the lifeworld (like that of intersubjectivity) is a paradoxical one. But Husserl considers all this to be apparent paradoxes.
>Life world/Husserl
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Paradoxes/Husserl: According to his belief, they dissolve when the transcendental sense of phenomenological reduction is held with real consistency and if one is not afraid of the bugbear of a transcendental solipsism.
Gadamer: In view of these clear tendencies of Husserl's thought formation, it seems absurd to me to attribute to Husserl any ambiguity in the concept of constitution, an in-between of definition of meaning and creation(1). [Husserl] himself assures that, as a result of his thinking, he has thoroughly overcome the fear of the idealism of creation.
Gadamer I 260
Gadamer: I would like to remind you that Husserl himself faced the problem of the paradoxes that arise from the implementation of his transcendental solipsism.
HeideggerVsHusserl/Gadamer: It is therefore factually not easy to describe the point from which Heidegger could confront Husserl's phenomenological idealism. Indeed, one must even admit that Heidegger's draft of "Being and Time" had not completely escaped the realm of the transcendental problem of reflection. The idea of fundamental ontology, its foundation on the existence that is concerned with this, and the analysis of this existence seemed at first to measure only a new question dimension within transcendental phenomenology(2).
And if Heidegger's methodological program was critically directed against the concept of transcendental subjectivity, to which Husserl referred back all of his final justification, Husserl would have called it a misjudgment of the radicality of transcendental reduction. He would certainly have asserted that transcendental subjectivity itself already had all the implications of substance ontology and with it the objectivism of the tradition had been overcome and eliminated. Husserl also saw himself in opposition to the whole of metaphysics.
>Metaphysics, >Subjectivity, >Objectivism.


1. Like E. Fink in his lecture: »L'analyse intentionnelle et le probleme de la pensée
spéculative«, in Problemes actuels de la Phénoménologie, 1952.
2. Like O. Becker emphasized in the Husserlfestschrift, p. 39.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.
E. Husserl
I Peter Prechtl, Husserl zur Einführung, Hamburg 1991
II "Husserl" in: Eva Picardi et al., Interpretationen - Hauptwerke der Philosophie: 20. Jahrhundert, Stuttgart 1992
Gadamer I
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik 7. durchgesehene Auflage Tübingen 1960/2010

Gadamer II
H. G. Gadamer
The Relevance of the Beautiful, London 1986
German Edition:
Die Aktualität des Schönen: Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest Stuttgart 1977


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