TEMPORAL EXTERNALISM, DEFERENCE, AND OUR ORDINARY LINGUISTIC PRACTICE
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عنوان ژورنال: Pacific Philosophical Quarterly
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0279-0750,1468-0114
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0114.2005.00232.x