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An Essay on Door-Knocking

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In the Shadow of Descartes

Part of the book series: Synthese Library ((SYLI,volume 272))

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I hear a knock on the door, rise and walk to the door, seize the handle, turn it, and push or pull the door open.

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  1. Cf. below p. 147 about the epistemic priority of the mental in relation to the neural.

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  2. Cf. my book Freedom and Determination. North Holland Publishing Co., 1980; Acta Philosophica Fennica 31.

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von Wright, G.H. (1998). An Essay on Door-Knocking. In: In the Shadow of Descartes. Synthese Library, vol 272. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9034-1_4

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