The purpose of this short paper is to extend a recent result of Ricceri, on the existence of zeros of functions with values in a dual space, to the existence of solutions to inclusions with values in arbitrary topological spaces.

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António J. B. Lopes-Pinto

Center of Mathematics and Fundamental Applications, University of Lisbon, Avenida Professor Gama Pinto 2, 1699 Lisbon Codex, Portugal

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