are private and ineffable,
her experience can be known
only by analogy.
- My most certain knowledge is the content of my own mind—my thoughts, experiences, affects, etc.
- There is no conceptual or logically necessary link between mental and physical—between, for example, the occurrence of certain conscious experience or mental states and the "possession" and behavioral dispositions of a "body" of a particular kind.
- My given experience is necessarily private to me.
in favor of idealism
provide my solipsist heart
with a number of arguments,
but one persists:
the "true" nature of the world—
whether it is some ethereal plane of ideas
or a reality of atomic particles and energy—
should be just about love...and nothing else.
whether it is some ethereal plane of ideas
or a reality of atomic particles and energy—
should be just about love...and nothing else.