Titlebook: Analytical Solipsism; William Todd Book 1968 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands 1968 causality.foundation.history.history of literat

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Further Development of the System: Phenomenalismr on phenomenalism in .. He notes the fact that in any phenomenalist analysis the hypothetical statements belonging to the analysis, which in our case have counterfactual force, will at some point depend on causal generalizations.

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Sensations and Imagesere has been a great deal of controversy about their status. Since much of this controversy has concerned the sense-datum theory either explicitly or implicitly, we must try to isolate the confused as well as the correct elements in that theory.

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Language and Sensationeferred only to one’s own sensations. In the last chapter we, among other things, established that sensations and images are not reducible to behavior. We can now see that the solipsist needs to have a language in which one talks only of phenomena that are non-behavioral, in the sense suggested by o

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Understanding and Synonymying” is used in two quite different ways. We can speak of understanding what someone says, and we can also speak of understanding a sentence apart from any particular person who may utter it. The first usage takes account of the possibility that while the person who utters the sentence may not attac

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Verifiability a basic ambiguity in Ayer’s state­ment of the theory. It can be viewed as a general method for deciding what a statement means, if anything, or it can be viewed as a criterion for deciding whether a statement has any meaning on the assumption that its intended meaning is perfectly clear. In this bo

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A Quasi-Axiomatic Solipsistic Systemtic method, but it will be helpful to go as far in this direction as possible. The axiomatic method gives us the considerable advantages of increased clarity, rigor, and elegance, but the main reason for using the method here is that it allows us to see more clearly what it is that we are doing whil

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Anti-Solipsismhers as A. J. Ayer and H. H. Price. Many recent philosophers not only find the concept of a sense-datum objectionable but also reject all similar concepts among which they would probably include the concepts represented by the primitive terms of our solipsistic language. Since the whole system depen

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Statements about the Pastr, there is a special sub-class of statements about the material world, statements about the past, which present special problems, and we will deal with them in this chapter. The problem is basically that of analyzing tensed statements in ordinary language which refer specifically to the past, the p