Personal Epistemologies and Intentional Conceptual Change*

Intentional Conceptual Change

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 201-238

  Mason, Lucia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410606716-14     Document Type: Chapter

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