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Seeing and Judging: Ockham and Wodeham on Sensory Cognition

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Perler, D. (2008). Seeing and Judging: Ockham and Wodeham on Sensory Cognition. In: Knuuttila, S., Kärkkäinen, P. (eds) Theories of Perception in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy. Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6125-7_10

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