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Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous

A model of what an edition of a philosohic text for an introductory level should be. Introduction does an admirable job of putting Berkeley's thought in the intellectual context of its time. —Gary C. Hatfield

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adult
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short · 137 pages

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