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David Bohm (1917–1992) was a physicist, but his influence has gone far beyond the world of physics. He has become one of the most widely discussed intellectual figures of the twentieth century.

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  1. 1.

    For this earlier period see Peat (1996), Chaps. 1–7, Freire (2015), Chap. 2, and Mullet (2008).

  2. 2.

    Peat (1996), p. 74.

  3. 3.

    Bohm (1989).

  4. 4.

    See Chap. 6 for a brief outline.

  5. 5.

    See Chap. 6.

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Talbot, C. (2017). Introduction. In: Talbot, C. (eds) David Bohm: Causality and Chance, Letters to Three Women. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55492-1_1

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