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    Challenges→The use of premise (A*) begs the question against the brain-in-a-vat hypothesis

    If disquotation holds for vat-English, then premise (A*) cannot be true when spoken by a brain-in-a-vat speaking vat-English

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    An argument against the brain-in-a-vat hypothesis that presupposes the speaker i...Disquotation holds for vat-English as well as EnglishThe use of premise (A*) begs the question against the brain-in-a-vat hypothesisTherefore, premise (A*) is true only if spoken by a non-brain-in-a-vat speaking ...

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    We should also note that premise (A*) cannot be true if it is spoken by a BIV speaking vat-English, since disquotation holds for vat-English as well as English. Thus (A*) is true only if spoken by a non-BIV speaking English, and so its use begs the question for the same reason pointed out by Hale (2000) regarding Wright’s (1992) reconstruction.

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