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Popper’S Evolutionary Epistemology Revamped

✍ Scribed by F. Michael Akeroyd

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Weight
87 KB
Volume
35
Category
Article
ISSN
1572-8587

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