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Book Title: Treatise of Human Nature
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 1.7in
Item Width: 6in
Author: David Hume
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Epistemology, General
Publisher: CreateSpace
Publication Year: 2016
Genre: Philosophy
Item Weight: 42.6 Oz
Number of Pages: 738 Pages
