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Reading for Philosophical Inquiry a Brief Introduction to Philosophical Thinking Ver Reading for Philosophical Inquiry A Brief Introduction to Philosophical Thinking ver. 0.21 An Open Source Reader Lee Archie John G. Archie Reading for Philosophical Inquiry: A Brief Introduction to Philo- sophical Thinking ver. 0.21; An Open Source Reader by Lee Archie by John G. Archie Version 0.21 Edition Published January, 2004 Copyright © 2004 by Lee Archie; John G. Archie Comments—The current version of this open source textbook in philosophy is a work-in-progress and is being released only in draft form. The collaborators would be grateful for corrections or other suggestions to this preliminary draft. Please address comments to [email protected] . GNU Free Documentation License—© Lee Archie and John G. Archie. 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