@misc{Lexicon of Arguments, title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 28 Mar 2024}, author = {Nozick,Robert}, subject = {Brains in a Vat}, note = {II 175 Brains in a vat/BIV/Nozick: although the belief that he is in the vat is correctly caused, the person is not susceptible to this fact. >Brains in vat/Putnam, >Reference/Putnam, >Meaning. Susceptibility would require covariance of belief and facts. >Counterfactual Conditional: if the brains were not in the vat, they would not believe it. II 210 Brains in a Vat/Nozick: we are not connected with the fact that we are not in the vat, even if we are not in the vat. Cf. >nonfactualism, >Facts. II 244 Brains in a vat/Skepticism/NozickVsSkepticism: Skepticism calls for something too strong: there is supposed to be a q ("We are in a vat"), such that it is incompatible with any p. >Skepticism. In contrast, the weaker is true: for each p there is something that is incompatible with it. - (Quantifiers interchanged). >Stronger/weaker.}, note = { No I R. Nozick Philosophical Explanations Oxford 1981 No II R., Nozick The Nature of Rationality 1994 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=225387} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=225387} }