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New twists on the great chain of being

Ricki Bliss and Graham Priest (eds): Reality and its structure. Essays in fundamentality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, 324 pp, £50 HB

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Saint-Germier, P. New twists on the great chain of being. Metascience 29, 345–349 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-020-00518-y

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