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Towards an Analytic Phenomenology: The Concepts of “Bodiliness” and “Grabbiness”

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O’Regan, J.K., Myin, E., Noë, A. (2004). Towards an Analytic Phenomenology: The Concepts of “Bodiliness” and “Grabbiness”. In: Carsetti, A. (eds) Seeing, Thinking and Knowing. Theory and Decision Library A:, vol 38. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2081-3_5

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