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Núñez, R. (2009). What Is Mathematics? Pauli, Jung,and Contemporary Cognitive Science. In: Atmanspacher, H., Primas, H. (eds) Recasting Reality. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85198-1_13

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