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"Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do a… - Umberto Eco
"Then why do you want to know?"
"Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do."
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About Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian philosopher, semiotician, essayist, literary critic, and novelist, most famous for his novel The Name of the Rose (1980), an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory.
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Umberto Ecco
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Umberto Eccounstino
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Humberto Eco
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Dedalus
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Umberto Eko
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Oumperto Eko
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Eco Umberto
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U. Eco
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