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  • August 21, 2006 @ 11: 51 am my butt looks very wide. and my face looks weird. but roy g biv is delightfully handsome and never before have i seen such perfect jazz hands. lena made buttholes!

    My very crafty Saturday. « A Bird’s Nest 2006

  • | Reply | Permalink your roy. g.biv shirt is shock and awesome.

    Wolfson: There Have Been "No Discussions" Of Ending The Race 2009

  • For example, since not-biv is entailed by h, I am in San Antonio, skeptics may argue as follows:

    The Epistemic Closure Principle Luper, Steven 2005

  • So if I know h and I believe not-biv because I know it is entailed by h then I know not-biv.

    The Epistemic Closure Principle Luper, Steven 2005

  • Having gotten this far, however, skeptics appeal to K, and argue that since I would know not-biv if I knew h, then I must not know h after all, while Moore-style antiskeptics appeal to K in order to conclude that I do know not-biv.

    The Epistemic Closure Principle Luper, Steven 2005

  • For I do not track not-biv: if biv were true, I would still have the experiences that lead me to believe that biv is false.

    The Epistemic Closure Principle Luper, Steven 2005

  • So if I know h and I believe not-biv because I know it is entailed by h then I know not-biv.

    The Epistemic Closure Principle Luper, Steven 2005

  • For example, I do not know not-biv: I am not a brain in a vat on a planet far from earth being deceiving by alien scientists.

    The Epistemic Closure Principle Luper, Steven 2005

  • BIV 'OUAC, (_biv' wak_,) pass the night without tents.

    Sanders' Union Fourth Reader Charles W. Sanders

  • [64] = Bivouac = (biv-wak '): an encampment without tents or shelter, or one in which the whole army is on guard against surprise; here, the former is probably meant.

    The Two Great Retreats of History George Grote 1832

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