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The structure of agency: Issues in the representation of agency and action

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Dipert, R.R. (1990). The structure of agency: Issues in the representation of agency and action. In: Kumar, D. (eds) Current Trends in SNePS — Semantic Network Processing System. SNePS 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 437. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0022084

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