Multiple choice

Which of these is the philosophical idea that only one's own mind is sure to exist?

  1. Hypothesis

  2. Fallibilism

  3. Uncertainty

  4. Solipsism

  5. Belief

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Explanation

Solipsism is the philosophical idea that only one's own mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known, and might not exist outside the mind.