Modern essentialism and the problem of individuation of spacetime points

Erkenntnis

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 25-43

  Bartels, Andreas ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 0039319631     PISSN: 01650106     EISSN: 15728420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00226369     Document Type: Article

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