Book Review: Douglas R. Hofstadter: "Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid."
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I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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عنوان ژورنال: Auslegung: a Journal of Philosophy
سال: 1979
ISSN: 0733-4311
DOI: 10.17161/ajp.1808.8963