Abstract

A mental presentation... does not have any necessary connection with what it stands for... Magical theories of reference, in a word, are wrong. (Dell'Utri 1990, p. 83) In order to refer we have to partake in causal chains connecting our words with their reference, provided that our referential intentions are socially shared and the reference itself is knowable. (Dell'Utri 1990, p. 84) Brains in a vat (BIV) are connected to a computer which causes the brains to have sense-impressions-images--qualitatively indistinguishable from those had by normal embodied brains. According to Dell'Utri, Putnam, using the above premisses

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