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IrrationalityRationalityPhilosophyEpistemology
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- 10
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- 3
- Pages
- 470-470
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- 845
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David G. Wagner,
Jon Elster
(1981).
Ulysses and the Sirens: Studies in Rationality and Irrationality..
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
, 10
(3)
, 470-470.
https://doi.org/10.2307/2067417
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- 10.2307/2067417