Does your friend truly understand the usual definition of the word?
Because newspapers still use it to mean "navel-gazing" or self-focused by and large.
In some circles, it has become synonymous with skepticism and atheism/agnosticism, but it's more so a tool within those current re-boiling of philosophies -- as ways of thinking tend to go in circles just like fashionable clothing -- yet not quite a total synonym or substitute for those words (especially since even the philosophy has multiple uses).
I think as the word "entropy" became trendy to toss around with implications that the user wants to imply about themselves, but it may not entirely contain (or certainly goes beyond what they may assume it means); words/phrases that get regurgitated -- like "anarchy", many misuse that word all the time when what they really mean is "bedlam". However, since even the dictionary has bowed to making "literary" mean "figuratively", there is no telling what next we should expect from language.
For me, the most interesting aspect of solipsism is pondering the notion et al, but I would tend to remove myself as well from the equation of imagining how subjective the entire universe is. I did that all the time anyway without any fancy vocabulary to back it.
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Date: 2014-11-30 08:54 am (UTC)Because newspapers still use it to mean "navel-gazing" or self-focused by and large.
In some circles, it has become synonymous with skepticism and atheism/agnosticism, but it's more so a tool within those current re-boiling of philosophies -- as ways of thinking tend to go in circles just like fashionable clothing -- yet not quite a total synonym or substitute for those words (especially since even the philosophy has multiple uses).
I think as the word "entropy" became trendy to toss around with implications that the user wants to imply about themselves, but it may not entirely contain (or certainly goes beyond what they may assume it means); words/phrases that get regurgitated -- like "anarchy", many misuse that word all the time when what they really mean is "bedlam". However, since even the dictionary has bowed to making "literary" mean "figuratively", there is no telling what next we should expect from language.
For me, the most interesting aspect of solipsism is pondering the notion et al, but I would tend to remove myself as well from the equation of imagining how subjective the entire universe is. I did that all the time anyway without any fancy vocabulary to back it.