Of Reality: The Purposes Of Philosophy
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Columbia University Press, 2016.
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English
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9780231536578
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Gianni Vattimo., & Gianni Vattimo|AUTHOR. (2016). Of Reality: The Purposes Of Philosophy . Columbia University Press.
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