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On the safety and danger of ‘viral’ information from the perspective of the epistemological subject

By: Peter Gurský  
Open Access
|Dec 2021

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ebce-2021-0019 | Journal eISSN: 2453-7829 | Journal ISSN: 1338-5615
Language: English
Page range: 126 - 141
Published on: Dec 14, 2021
Published by: University of Prešov
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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