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The grammar of reason: Hamann's challenge to Kant

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This is a very much enlarged version of a paper given in the conferenceThought and Language in the Philosophy of the Enlightenment, University of Toronto, October 18–20, 1985.

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Butts, R.E. The grammar of reason: Hamann's challenge to Kant. Synthese 75, 251–283 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00872981

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