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Leibniz’s Rationality: Divine Intelligibility and Human Intelligibility

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Nachtomy, O. (2008). Leibniz’s Rationality: Divine Intelligibility and Human Intelligibility. In: Dascal, M. (eds) Leibniz: What Kind of Rationalist?. Logic, Epistemology, and The Unity Of Science, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8668-7_4

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