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Body and world: a review of What Computers Still Can't Do: A critique of artificial reason (Hubert L. Dreyfus): (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1992); liii + 354 pages, $13.95

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Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Weight: 759 KB
Volume: 80
Category: Article
ISSN: 0004-3702
DOI: 10.1016/0004-3702(95)00084-4

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