BIV
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| Acronym | Definition |
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| BIV | Business in Vancouver (newspaper; Canada) |
| BIV | Brain in a Vat (philosophy) |
| BIV | Beroepsinstituut van Vastgoedmakelaars (Dutch: Professional Institute of Real Estate; Belgium) |
| BIV | Bivouac |
| BIV | Belasting op de Inverkeerstelling (Belgian tax) |
| BIV | Biventricular |
| BIV | Best in Variety |
| BIV | Bovine Immunodeficiency Virus |
| BIV | Built-in Variable (plumbing) |
| BIV | Business Internet Voix (French internet provider) |
| BIV | Belgian Institute of Victimology (Belgium) |
References in periodicals archive
Phenomenalism is an unacceptable theory of meaning, and anyone arguing against the brain in a vat hypothesis must not presuppose it.
Putnam remarks that due to the differences between the causal environments in which normal thinkers and brains in vats are ensconced, the semantic properties of the language of the brain in a vat differ from those of the language spoken by his normal unenvatted counterpart (this difference may enable one to argue that one is not a handless brain in a vat).
Consider the following case: A
brain in a vat is at the wheel of a runaway trolley, approaching a fork in the track.
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