Kripke's essentialist argument against the identity theory
β Scribed by Michael Della Rocca
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 853 KB
- Volume
- 69
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0031-8116
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