Foreword – Cognitive Science: A New Science with a Considerable Tradition
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عنوان ژورنال: Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2199-6059,0860-150X
DOI: 10.1515/slgr-2015-0001