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| Title | Physical Realism: Being an Analytical Philosophy from the Physical Objects of Science to the Physical Data of Sense |
| Author | Thomas Case |
| Publisher | Longmans, Green, and Company, 1888 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 17 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 387 pages |
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