Coincident Entities and Question-Begging Predicates: an Issue in Meta-Ontology
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Coincident Entities and Question-Begging Predicates: an Issue in Meta-Ontology
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عنوان ژورنال: Metaphysica
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1437-2053,1874-6373
DOI: 10.1007/s12133-012-0106-x