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Presuppositional Languages and the Failure of Cross-Language Understanding

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

Xinli Wang
Xinli Wang
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Juniata College
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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , Winter 2003 , pp. 53 - 78
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