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Intentionality as internality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Don Perlis  and
Rosalie Hall
Don Perlis
Affiliation:
Computer Science Department
Rosalie Hall
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, University of Maryland, College Park, Md. 20742
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , March 1986 , pp. 151 - 152
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