The Party maintains a philosophy that completely ignores the world outside the mind. Winston describes it as follows: “The very existence of external reality was tactically denied by their philosophy. » (80) This means that the Party has a somewhat solipsistic philosophy. To explain this, the Party maintains that the outside world is illegitimate and that only inner thoughts are reality. Ergo, every action in external reality is simply a product of imagination. Using this philosophy, the Party can further minimize individuality by denying actual events that were caused by people who wanted to create conflict.