The Meaning of Life and the “Pottersville Test”

Film and Philosophy 17:38-46 (2013)
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Jay R. Elliott
Bard College
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Keywords Applied Philosophy  Contemporary Philosophy  Semiotics
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DOI 10.5840/filmphil2013174
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