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What Computers Still Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reasonby Herbert Dreyfus

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Book ID: 125026747
Publisher: MIT Press
Year: 1994
Tongue: English
Weight: 480 KB
Volume: 27
Category: Article
ISSN: 0024-094X
DOI: 10.2307/1575958

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