Brains in a Vat
Putnam (Hilary)
Source: Putnam - Reason, Truth and History
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Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. The case of the brains in a vat
  3. Turing's test
  4. Brains in a vat (again)
  5. The premises of the argument
  6. The reasons for denying necessary connections between representations and their referents
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