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Originally Posted by Sparrow
Ok, I'm lost, sorry.  .
I'm not clear how knowing what an 'illusion' is disproves solipsism.
Can't the internal world contain illusions? We see magic illusions, films on screens all producing illusions - yet they could all be part of our internal illusion.
Can't we have illusions within illusions? 
Mind you, if solipsism was true I'd already know all this stuff, and wouldn't have to ask.  |
It's somewhat different from solipsism. According to solipsism, only I exist. If we are all trapped in illusions, there could still be an external world. We could all be trapped in illusions, but without any access to the external world we would have no way of knowing. Illusion only has meaning when contrasted against reality. If _everything_ is illusion, there is no reality with which to contrast it and concept loses its meaning.
Luqman