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To: nopardons
it's all just solophistic drivel.

I think you mean solipsistic.

Main Entry: so·lip·sism

Pronunciation: 'sO-l&p-"si-z&m, 'sä-

Function: noun

Etymology: Latin solus alone + ipse self

Date: 1874

: a theory holding that the self can know nothing but its own modifications and that the self is the only existent thing

- so·lip·sist /'sO-l&p-sist, 'sä-l&p-, s&-'lip-/ noun

- so·lip·sis·tic /"sO-l&p-'sis-tik, "sä-/ adjective

- so·lip·sis·ti·cal·ly /-ti-k(&-)lE/ adverb

264 posted on 01/12/2003 8:29:40 AM PST by HIDEK6
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To: HIDEK6
One of my many typos, which usually, unfortunately, go uncorrected. Yes, that IS exactly the word ( misspelled typo though it was ) and meaning I was using.:-)
278 posted on 01/12/2003 9:16:07 PM PST by nopardons
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