An 'abominable conjunction' is a statement generated by denying the closure principle, exemplified by the assertion: 'I know that I have hands but I do not know that I am not a (handless) BIV.'

Authors

• Person: Matthias Steup, Ram Neta Organization: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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• Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Matthias Steup, Ram Neta · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy via serper

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• Brain-in-a-vat argument concept
• knowledge concept