[papertyger]

LOL! Kolo is using solipsism? Is that what you learned in your Greek course at some university? Are you sure you are not confusing it with sophism...? :)

Nope, that's the word I intended. Strictly speaking "solipsism" has a slightly different meaning, but in the past several years colloquial usage has given the term a further sense of "if I don't know something, no one else can know it either" when used descriptively.

You are telling a lawyer of 30 years of practice to look up what caveat means? LOL!

That do [sic] explain alot [sic]...

[kosta50]

...but in the past several years colloquial usage has given the term [solipsism] a further sense of "if I don't know something, no one else can know it either" when used descriptively

I never heard of that colloquial meaning (must be [de]generational), and it's certainly not in the dictionaries. But I am not surprised, given the narcissistic nature of the spoiled brats, to come up with such a distortion—if I don't know it, then no one else can know it."