Chris Hookway once told me that he reviewed a paper about Schiller that continually confused Friedrich Schiller with the pragmatist philosopher F.S.C. Schiller.
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Chris Hookway once told me that he reviewed a paper about Schiller that continually confused Friedrich Schiller with the pragmatist philosopher F.S.C. Schiller.
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