The time has come. Here's my undergraduate dissertation in all its horribly unedited glory:
There is much I would change if I were to rewrite it. But then I couldn't write another similar-yet-somehow-different paper and claim it was new work.
Tuesday, 18 March 2008
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Forgive me if I'm being dim, but isn't the point of Putnam's brains-in-a-vat argument supposed to be that it explains why we could have knowledge of chairs etc. even if we were brains-in-vats? I was just wondering how your proposal differs from this.
That sounds like philosophy of language to me...
It's largely because I think that Putnam's response is wrong. I don't find his argument at all convincing. Although, let's be honest, most people don't find mine at all convincing either.
I wanted an answer that didn't involve philosophy of language really. I don't think language has the power that Putnam seems to think it does (vague generalised comment).
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