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Dialectica 77(4), special issue "Non-Wellfoundedness", ed. by Steph Rennick and Stephan Leuenberger

Determination Relations and Metaphysical Explanations

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      Bromberger, Sylvain. 1992. On What We Know We Don’t Know. Explanation, Theory, Linguistics, and How Questions Shape Them. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.
      Carruth, Alexander, Gibb, Sophie C. and Heil, John, eds. 2018. Ontology, Modality, and Mind: Themes from the Metaphysics of E.J. Lowe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198796299.001.0001.