Establishing that BIVs cannot truly assert their BIV-hood does not entail that non-BIVs exist, as Stroud's challenge in 'The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism' demonstrates the gap between semantic and metaphysicalconclusions.
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To logically follow or guarantee as a necessary consequence; if something is true, what does it force to also be true?
The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism(as a philosophical work discussed)
A major book by Stroud examining whether skeptical challenges (like the brain-in-a-vat scenario) are genuinely meaningful or just intellectual puzzles.
metaphysical(Ayer's Logical Positivist usage)
Language that purports to refer beyond the physical world and lacks empirical consequences, which Ayer classifies as not literally significant
semantic(describing the level of word meaning)
Relating to the meaning of words and sentences.
the gap between semantic and metaphysical conclusions(as the main idea of the statement)
The philosophical problem that you can clarify what words mean without necessarily proving anything true about actual reality.