Okay, there's this word I'm looking for and it's driving me nuts because not only can I not remember it, I can't remember the exact definition. It's an outlook on life where you decide that if you think something happened, then it happened; Reality and truth are determined by the majority. I found this word while reading 1984 but have since returned said book to the Library. An example of this word is: Guy #1 believes he flew around the room. Guy #2 believes that Guy # 1 flew around the room. Therefore, Guy #1 flew around the room. Help please...

Haha, I found the word I was thinking of! solipsism: 1.The theory that the self is the only thing that can be known and verified.
2. The theory or view that the self is the only reality.

Don't you love that "ah-ha I have it" feeling, Biblio.

(Except when it arrives smack-dab in the middle of a conversation with somebody else, like, "yes, I think we should landscape the, - ah-ha, solipsism, ya, that's it, solipsism, silly me, how could I have forgotten that - ya, um landscape the front lawn, don't you dear ? "

> found the word I was thinking of!

I myself went to a solipsism conference the other day; we all got together and talked about our own universe.

! Oh, by, thanks for letting me start my day with a good laugh!

Parm my beg to differmints. What Guy#2 thinks has nothing to do with Guy#1's solipsism; he's just a figment of Guy#1's imagination. I don't think solipsism is quite the word you're looking for.

I think the word you're looking for is history.

well Fong, solipsism may indeed be the word he was thinking of, but his description sure didn't make *me think of it. but then I'm probably thinking only of myself again.

dr. bill suggests that what Guy #1 and Guy #2 have got going there is folie à deux.

folie a deux noun [F, lit., double madness] (ca. 1892)
: the presence of the same or similar delusional ideas in two persons closely associated with one another
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folie à deux

Or 'WMD' for short.

> 'WMD'

Isn't that the orthocousin: for lies - adieux!