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    It is not the case that (Cons) can express a truth at a vat-world only if the speaker of (Cons) is not in a vat-world

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    • 1.A metalanguage can be spoken by a BIV if the BIV's causal-computational relations track the same semantic norms as non-BIVs.
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    • 2.Putnam's own causal-historical account of reference permits reference-fixing through causal chains internal to the vat-world's computational structure.
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    • 3.Therefore, vat-English metalanguage is possible, undermining the claim that metalinguistic expression requires a non-BIV speaker.
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    • 1.Boghossian's meaning-skepticism entails that no privileged metalanguage exists that could establish determinate semantic facts from outside a system.
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    • 2.If no metalanguage is semantically privileged over object language, the distinction between vat-English and standard English collapses as a basis for truth-conditions.
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    • 1.The metalanguage used to express (Cons) does not contain vat-English (the object language being described)
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    • 2.A metalanguage that does not contain vat-English is a language spoken only by non-BIVs
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