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Inspecting Images: A Reply to Smythies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Edmond Wright
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Philosophy , Volume 65 , Issue 252 , April 1990 , pp. 225 - 228
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1990

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