Editing Solipsism (section)

===Gorgias===
Solipsism was first recorded by the Greek [[presocratic]] [[sophist]], [[Gorgias]] ({{circa|483}}–375 BC), who is quoted by the [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] [[sceptic]] [[Sextus Empiricus]] as having stated:<ref name="Craig(Firm)1998">{{cite book|author1=Edward Craig|author2=Routledge (Firm)|title=Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Genealogy to Iqbal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5m5z_ca-qDkC&pg=PA146|year=1998|publisher=Taylor & Francis US|isbn=978-0-415-18709-1|page=146}}</ref>

* Nothing exists.
* Even if something exists, nothing can be known about it.
* Even if something could be known about it, knowledge about it cannot be communicated to others.

Much of the point of the sophists was to show that objective knowledge was a literal impossibility.