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D.R. Hofstadter Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (New York: Basic Books Inc. 1979).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

V. Huber-Dyson
V. Huber-Dyson*
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The University of Calgary and The Calgary Institute for the Humanities
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Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , December 1981 , pp. 775 - 792
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