What Is The Name Of The Belief That All Existance Is Part Of Your Imagination?

Where you believe your mind created the whole world and everything that happens isn't real, but your mind tells you that it is. Part of this also is that the world did not exist until you were born and will not exist when you die. I know there is a name for this, but I can not find it.

What Is The Name Of The Belief That All Existance Is Part Of Your Imagination?
Paul and Nick are correct about "solipsism."





"Existence Exists." That existence does indeed exist is possible to be proved, impossible to be disproved.





The "universal truth" (as some call it) is all of the following:


that existence exists. Nothing else.


Proof of the correctness of this statement is as follows;


If existence did not exist, you would not exist in any form--


neither as an independent existent in an empirical universe;


nor as an existent in someone's mind,


or in the godhead;


nor as an existent in your own mind.





If existence did not exist, you, in any form whatsoever, would not exist because nothing would or could exist. In what can it exist except in existence?





The "axiomatic concept", that "existence exists" began at least no later than Aristotle, who used it as formulaic. ("...all [ ] concepts, all axioms, propositions and thought鈥攃onsists of axiomatic concepts." Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, 73. Ayn Rand) It has, therefore, been argued, if not utilized, by all philosophers, and none disagrees that existence does not exist.





As an axiomatic concept, it is the given, it is self-evident, and it describes all things that have existed, exist now, and ever will exist. Therefore, since no philosopher disagrees that existence does not exist, and all must agree that existence cannot never have existed. Non-existence is not the "default position." To argue otherwise is to contradict the axiomatic denotation of the word "exists".





It is from this axiomatic concept that all other concepts are derived, including the mistaken one of solipsism.
Reply:Solipsism, but it's self-defeating unfortunately, since it suggests self-causation. First, if all existence is a product of our imagination, then our imagination preceded existence. But, we exist. Therefore, we existed before there was existence? No, impossible. We would have to exist prior to all existence. But how can there be existence before existence?
Reply:Solipsism?





is the philosophical idea that "My mind is the only thing that I know exists." Solipsism is an epistemological or metaphysical position that knowledge of anything outside the mind is unjustified. The external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist. In the history of philosophy, solipsism has served as a skeptical hypothesis.
Reply:Well the Rationalists believe reality is in the mind.


And the Narcissists think it's all about them.





Let's call it Rationalistic Narcissism.





Not sure that's what it's called, but there sure are a lot of people who suffer from it.
Reply:TigerClaw. Heh.
Reply:Hyponoetics, moron.
Reply:Solipsism. "Solipsists of the World, Unite!" .