Some considerations

  1. Well I'm saying that even big things like hard solipsism, or things like it, cannot just be dropped from possibility just because they don't jive well with your currently preferred worldview.

Actually, it does. I know you or anyone else is not a solipsist, since I am aware I have a mind. I've objectively confirmed in my subjective evaluations that I am not a solipsist. It's really easy to do once you realize that all you have to do is prove you are not a solipsist, since all other minds cannot be solipsistic by default.

  1. Naturalism is currently accepted by many based on some terms, but is not itself conclusively demonstrated.

Sure it is. It's the one worldview that is constantly demonstrated.

Holding it can produce some results, but if holding its working parts means ignoring other unproven avenues of knowledge, then that's a problem.

False knowledge isn't knowledge, so until avenues can be demonstrated, it's no problem at all.

  1. I can't disprove that leprechauns men made of stray don't exist, and therefore I do not disbelieve or actively deny or affirm their existence. This is a sound, and honest position.

The null position is to deny until demonstrated, which is the atheist view on god. I consider myself a Fox Mulder atheist. I want to believe, but in my experience if you can't share verifiable evidence, the claim is worthless.

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