Towards a solution to the lottery paradox and to the paradox of the preface

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Kutlusoy, Zekiye
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Paradox, Justification (Theory of knowledge), Knowledge, Theory of
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/11251
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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Z. Kutlusoy, “Towards a solution to the lottery paradox and to the paradox of the preface,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 1994.
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