People are more comfortable with paradox than commonly believed: paradox in film and fiction
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0952-813X,1362-3079
DOI: 10.1080/0952813x.2013.782976