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Glasersfeld's Argument Analysis: The Reality Of Experience

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I don’t believe that solipsism lines up with what Glasersfeld believes. I think that Glasersfeld has a perception that there are other things that creates the world and one’s reality. I personally lean hard on “The Reality of Experience” portion of the reading to explain his position. It is here that I think that his argument is given strength. It explains that the mind cannot be the only place to determine the world and reality. He states that Observation is one of the things that one uses to paint reality. He then goes onto to state that Observation leads to Hypothesis. It is here that you make connections and those connections can be related to reality. Hypothesis set up for Prediction, which also plays a major role in what is reality.

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