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    Challenges→You do know that you have hands, despite being unable to discriminate between having hands and being a brain-in-a-vat.

    Being a brain-in-a-vat is not a relevant alternative to having hands.

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    Next, we will examine various responses to the BKCA argument. According to the first, we can see that (C2) is false if we distinguish between relevant and irrelevant alternatives. An alternative to a proposition p is any proposition that is incompatible with p. Your having hands and your being a BIV are alternatives: if the former is true, the latter is false, and vice versa. According to the thought that motivates the second premise of the BIV argument, you know that you have hands only if

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