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Externalism and the Expressibility Gap: What Putnam's BIV Argument Really Shows
An analysis of Putnam's brain-in-a-vat argument, demonstrating that while it proves the utterance "I am a brain in a vat" is self-refuting, it doesn't establish the metaphysical conclusion that we aren't brains in vats; instead, it identifies a limitation on expressibility.
philosophyepistemologyexternalismputnamphilosophy-of-language