empiricism prevents solipsism

• empiricism philosophically “the egocentric predicament” (according to A. J. Ayer) prevents solipsism — gets us out of the circle of our minds by pointing to the public, demonstrable events for corroboration, a defence against platonism (innate ideas, universals, deductive idealism)
• psychologically it is that fantasy which makes us feel safe from isolation and paranoid potentialities of solipsism
• empirical disguise in case histories is an inevitable defence against the solipsistic power of the fictions