@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
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