Expanding Davies’s Pragmatic Constraint: A Pragmatist Principle for Philosophizing about Art
By: David Collins
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/eeja.545 | Journal eISSN: 2571-0915
Language: English
Page range: 1 - 16
Submitted on: Jul 8, 2024
Accepted on: Jan 28, 2025
Published on: Mar 18, 2025
Published by: Helsinki University Press
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