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This paper investigates Hilary Putnam's famous 'Brains in a vat' hypothesis. In the literature of the problem, it is mostly discussed as an antisceptic hypothesis. It was introduced firstly in 1981 in the book 'Reason, Truth and History'. No doubt it is not self evident at first sight that the real point of the argument is not the refutation of scepticism, but the grounding of the author's own epistemological...
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