Externism (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Externism is a fictional philosophical theory proposed by the famous fictitious Czech genius J ra Cimrman. This character appears in many plays by authors from the J ra Cimrman Theatre in Prague. The first act of the theatre performances is usually filled with a lecture on Cimrman's personality, followed by a theatre play, which is pretended to be written by this fictional author. The theory of Externism is described in a monologue by a Cimrmanologist having a lecture on J ra Cimrman's significance in the field of philosophy in the first act of the theatre play Akt by Zden k Sv r k, Ladislav Smoljak and Ji eb nek . This epistemological theory contradicts the traditional theory of solipsism. While solipsists believe that only their individual self exists and the external world does not, J ra Cimrman came with the idea that it is the external world which exists and the philosopher's individual self does not.