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14 - Talking Lions, Intelligent Aliens, and Knowing God – Some Epistemological Reflections on a Speculative Issue

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 July 2017

By
Taede A. Smedes
Edited by
Andreas Losch
Andreas Losch
Affiliation:
Universität Bern, Switzerland
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What is Life? On Earth and Beyond , pp. 287 - 300
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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