My language disquotes

Analysis 59 (3):206–211 (1999)
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This paper is a defence of Putnam's claim that the proposition expressed by the sentence 'I am a brain-in-a-vat' is necessarily false. In particular, the paper defends the anti-sceptical conclusion against an attack by Noonan.

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Semantic Pragmatism and A Priori Knowledge.Henry Jackman - 2001 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 31 (4):455-480.
Reply to Sawyer on brains in vats.H. W. Noonan - 2000 - Analysis 60 (3):247-249.

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Reason, truth, and history.Hilary Putnam - 1981 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
Reason, Truth and History.Kathleen Okruhlik - 1984 - Philosophy of Science 51 (4):692-694.
IV*—On Putnam's Proof that We are not Brains-in-a-Vat1.Crispin Wright - 1992 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 92 (1):67-94.

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