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Sandra B. RosenthalSpeculative Pragmatism (Amherst: The University of Massachusetss Press, 1986), 248 pp. $25.00 (cloth).

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Littleford, M.S. Toward a pragmatic metaphysics: Comments on a speculative approach. Man and World 26, 339–350 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01273401

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