User talk:Justin Spinach/sandbox

Hi! Thank you so much for your peer review of my article. In regard to your question about why the brain in a vat would not be able to accurately state that it is a brain in a vat according to Putnam, this is because the BIV is trying to state that it is a brain in a vat that is outside of its current reality, and not referring to its own reality. However, this would not work because the BIV has no way of referring back to real brains and real vats due to the fact that it has never seen a real brain or vat. Its knowledge of brains and vats only consists of the brains and vats within its own reality. Therefore when it tries to state "I am a BIV" it does not work, due to the lack of causal constraint to the real world. I hope this helps clear up any concerns you had about the section! Nootiebeans (talk) 20:14, 6 October 2021 (UTC)Nootiebeans