BIV

See also: biv

English

Noun

BIV

  1. (philosophy) Initialism of brain in a vat.
    • 2014, Andrew Cullison, editor, The Bloomsbury Companion to Epistemology, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 131:
      Thus, although the BIV is in fact in an otherwise-empty world, it has experiences as of interacting with other people and with things in the environment, just as you do.
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