EdwardJCornwell

tschfflr , 8 months ago to linguistics

Question about #citations in #academic work: Where does one put the author in citations, in which THE WORK is included in the sentence, as in (a) vs (b) below?

(a) "... which you can find in Chomsky (1981)"
(b) "... which you can find in (Chomsky, 1981)"

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EdwardJCornwell , 8 months ago

@tschfflr I would say that 'an example is found in (3)' is qualitatively different than 'which you can find in (Chomsky, 1981)' because Chomsky is uniquely identifiable whereas 3 isn't.
My personal preference is (a), but I would read the rules for the journal.
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EdwardJCornwell , 8 months ago to philosophy

@lxvtnii I do so love being lectured by anonymous trolls who are so unimaginative they have to get their opinions from someone else!!
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EdwardJCornwell OP , 8 months ago

@juanfal Are you just here to be annoying? Like your little mate, you're not adding anything to the conversation. Jog on. @lxvtnii @philosophy

EdwardJCornwell OP , 8 months ago

@lxvtnii Which you don't have. @philosophy

EdwardJCornwell OP , 8 months ago

@lxvtnii Do you need to look up the definition of 'pretentious'?
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cbontenbal , 9 months ago to philosophy Dutch

I find myself not understanding the concept of atheism. Who wants to explain it to me in a coherent way for a beginner? With a metaphysical substantiation please, if that is at all possible.

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EdwardJCornwell , 8 months ago

@SusanHR it's an easy mistake to make when someone makes a ridiculous comment about religion in the middle of a discussion on the existence of the universe.
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EdwardJCornwell , 8 months ago

@PatternChaser exactly the point, that's why claims about the objective knowledge of science are a tad hollow. The sort of people who make such claims are not particularly astute thinkers, IMO.
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EdwardJCornwell , 8 months ago

@lxvtnii not sure I agree with that. What reason would I have for assuming the existence of others? I might be perfectly happy in the knowledge that I'm communicating with myself.
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EdwardJCornwell , 8 months ago

@lack I'm not 100% certain I do exist, tbh! I do think it is perfectly valid to assume the existence of an external world for the purposes of everyday life. I guess my point is more around the atheist argument that started the thread - if disbelief in the possibility of a god is based on only accepting the material world, then there's a gaping hole in that argument that needs to be acknowledged, and very few atheists are honest enough to do so, in my experience. @cbontenbal @philosophy

EdwardJCornwell , 8 months ago

@msteenhagen what happens to your 'knowledge' if the sun goes supernova this evening? @PatternChaser @lack @Drew @philippsteinkrueger @spencer @cbontenbal @philosophy

EdwardJCornwell , 8 months ago

@msteenhagen

The 'I'm pretty confident it won't happen' type is every bookie's dream customer! 😂
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EdwardJCornwell , 8 months ago

@lxvtnii Or maybe I just don't care if you take me seriously or not? (How can it be a semi-public - or any other type of public - speech act if I'm not certain the external world exists?) @philosophy

EdwardJCornwell , 8 months ago

@msteenhagen 'I can know something without knowing that I know.' No you can't; knowing is more than just holding information, otherwise every data warehouse in the world is smarter than the entire human race. 'Knowing' is contextualising and assessing (which are 100% conscious processes). @PatternChaser @lack @Drew @philippsteinkrueger @spencer @cbontenbal @philosophy

EdwardJCornwell , 8 months ago

@lxvtnii I didn't realise you were the philosophy police, do you have a badge? @philosophy

EdwardJCornwell , 8 months ago

@SusanHR No, Freud did a lot of work on the unconscious and preconscious mind. Just because you don't know something doesn't mean it doesn't exist in your mind. @PatternChaser @lack @msteenhagen @Drew @philippsteinkrueger @spencer @cbontenbal @philosophy

EdwardJCornwell , 8 months ago

@lack Being outside of your conscious control doesn't mean it exists outside your mind. @SusanHR @PatternChaser @msteenhagen @Drew @philippsteinkrueger @spencer @cbontenbal @philosophy