A connectionist defence of the inscrutability thesis

Mind and Language

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 465-480

  Garzón, Francisco Calvo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

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EID: 0034311320     PISSN: 02681064     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0017.00145     Document Type: Article

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