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Preoccupied now. Will reply later. Brief comment: for main ideas, it is better to have several concordant authoritative sources; I think such concordance is a good component of reliable sourcing. I think that internet references, such as The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, are mostly poor things to cite as 'reliable sources'. Paper-and-ink printed books that can be found in libraries are much preferable.Chjoaygame (talk) 02:28, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
I agree with you on the issue of having several concordant authoritative sources for main ideas. I'll keep it in mind for future contributions. But I don't agree on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy or similar sources (like the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy). They have a good reputation as far as I'm aware of and I've personally found them useful and no less reliable than their printed alternatives. And of course they have the additional advantage for the average reader that they only need to follow a link to check them out.Phlsph7 (talk) 04:14, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
Still preoccupied, but can chat briefly. Thank you for your comment. To my mind, the internet sources are slippery. I don't see the authoritative printed sources simply as alternatives. How does one check the internet sources? What level of authority do they attain? How easy it is for them to change after they have been initially cited?Chjoaygame (talk) 06:07, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for making the time. These are good questions. One source of epistemic authority is the author. What experts say is more likely to be true than what non-experts say. SEP & IEP have strict criteria for who can publish there, I guess stricter requirements than regular journals. Another source of authority comes from the publisher, e.g. from the people on the editorial board. Another source of authority comes from the publishing process, especially the peer-reviewing part. One indication of authority comes from whether many people in the field consider the publisher reliable. I'm not an expert on these issues but from what I can tell SEP & IEP don't do too bad on them.
You are right about the changing-part. There are some ways to mitigate it like the quarterly permanent editions of SEP in their archive or the Wayback Machine by the Internet Archive.
The hurdle for publishing online is much lower than for publishing in print. And of course this affects the quality of what is published. So here I agree with you that, generally speaking, printed publications are more reliable. But it doesn't apply to all cases.Phlsph7 (talk) 07:14, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for your careful and helpful reply. Though I have waved a flag, if I may be so bold, it seems to me that you are a relatively reliable and trustworthy Wikipedia editor, and I feel inclined to respect your judgement on this.Chjoaygame (talk) 08:28, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
(At the risk of being or seeming too opinionated, I would like to say that I have huge respect for the cosmology/ontology of Alfred North Whitehead, as set out in his Process and Reality.Chjoaygame (talk) 08:34, 25 October 2020 (UTC))
Ah, that's interesting. I picked the book up some time back. I got the impression that he has a quite systematic view but I didn't get deeper into it. What is it in his ontology that you find interesting? I'm currently reading some papers on truth-making. I saw an article or two here that might profit form truth-making-section.Phlsph7 (talk) 09:36, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
An ontology isn't about some unique ultimate truth. It's about how to articulate our thoughts about some world in a convenient way. Whitehead can be summarised as saying that we think of things in the ordinary world as real when they exemplify causality. Perhaps that's a misleading summary, but perhaps it might help. I have seen people seem to get Whitehead all jumbled. If you are interested in truth, may I suggest Jaakko Hintikka? Perhaps try The Principles of Mathematics Revisited.Chjoaygame (talk) 11:27, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
We are getting chatty. It occurs to me also that Hintikka has contributed to ontology. Ontology is about the basic things of some world or universe of discourse. Hintikka was an important source of modal logic, which specifies possible worlds.
I failed to find a computer file of Hintikka's Knowledge and Belief (1962), so that I needed to buy a paper-and-ink printed copy. I hasten to add that such a need is unusual. One can very often find computer files of printed books.
Rod Girle's Possible Worlds is on Amazon Kindle, but no free sample. It cites seven works of Hintikka.
On just now checking Amazon Kindle, I find I can download for free a sample of some score of pages of The Principles of Mathematics Revisited.Chjoaygame (talk) 14:49, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
I found a review, but I think it'll have to wait until after my truth-maker reading-list.
As for your comments on ontology before, they sound to me a little bit like Strawson's idea of descriptive metaphysics, i.e. that metaphysics is about describing our conceptual scheme. I haven't fully made up my mind on this issue, but I'm more inclined to a realist position: that there are actual "ontological facts" out there and that they determine whether a given ontological theory is right or wrong.Phlsph7 (talk) 16:10, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
Yes, of course you are right that the ordinary world consists of actual facts, which are out there, and which constrain the rightness or wrongness of an ontological theory, and which define ordinary reality. No doubt there. Ordinarily, we may leave the qualifier 'ordinary' tacit, but here we may say it, for definiteness.
But there are worlds other than the ordinary world. James Bond lives in one of them, perhaps even, over the decades, in several of them. The integers exist in another world, even in several other worlds. But, in a useful sense, such other worlds are not that of the ordinary reality of the ordinary world. They are fictional, mathematical,..., whatever, worlds. They may even have some real aspects, though not fully defining ordinary reality.
Each of these worlds has its ontology. Indeed, a world may easily have several ontologies, some better than others, for some purposes. Whitehead says "There remains the final reflection, how shallow, puny, and imperfect are efforts to sound the depths in the nature of things. In philosophical discussion, the merest hint of dogmatic certainty as to finality of statement is an exhibition of folly."
Your use of the word 'actual' is key. A basic concept in Whitehead's scheme is that of an 'actual entity'. Things are real insofar as they are founded in actual entities. Does this make sense?Chjoaygame (talk) 21:45, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
I can follow you to some extend. Let's say we take ontology to be about what ontological commitments a given theory or fiction has. Then we can say if James Bond's world were actual, the villain Auric Goldfinger would exist. Or if Hinduism were true then so & so many gods would exist. Different ontological theories of the same theory/fiction may disagree on the ontological commitments of this theory/fiction. And I take it that what you/Whitehead are saying is that there is no matter of fact as to which of these different ontological theories is true, that it is more a matter of convenience how we want to describe them. Is that roughly how you would characterize it? How does the idea of "actual entities" fit into this picture?
I can follow you to some extend. ok
Let's say we take ontology to be about what ontological commitments a given theory or fiction has. ok
Then we can say if James Bond's world were actual, the villain Auric Goldfinger would exist. The way I use the word 'actual' in this context leads me to say that James Bond's world is not actual, and contains no actual entities; this follows from its being fictional. I don't have a problem with saying that in James Bond's world, Goldfinger exists.
Or if Hinduism were true then so & so many gods would exist. For me, the question of the truth of Hinduism is close to meaningless or uninteresting. I don't see ontology as being very relevant to Hinduism. I guess that one could construct an ontology of Hinduism, with a taxonomy of objects such as gods and demons.
Different ontological theories of the same theory/fiction may disagree on the ontological commitments of this theory/fiction. Yes, different ontologies for a given world or universe of discourse differ.
And I take it that what you/Whitehead are saying is that there is no matter of fact as to which of these different ontological theories is true, that it is more a matter of convenience how we want to describe them. Is that roughly how you would characterize it? Yes. Aristotle took substances as his ontologically fundamental objects; only one fundamental category. That did quite well for him, but it had faults that gradually emerged in discussion; for example, it gives an imperfect account of causality. Descartes proposed two fundamentally different categories of basic ontological objects. I don't know how detailed was his ontology within those two categories. Leibniz proposed his monads as fundamental objects; only one fundamental category. That ontology had some logical merit, and was perhaps in some respects an advance on Aristotle's substances, but it didn't have much practical use, because it didn't give a systematically useful account of causality. Whitehead proposes a new kind of fundamental object that he calls an actual entity; only one fundamental category, that fully and usefully respects causality. This ontology is primarily only about the actual real world; it is not primarily about mathematical objects, nor primarily about fictive objects, nor primarily about other possible worlds or universes of discourse. Whitehead's other fundamental objects, which he calls 'abstractions', derive whatever they have of reality from their relations to the actual entities. An example of an abstraction is a number, say 'two'. Whitehead assumes that his ontology will be superseded by an endless procession of better ones that he hasn't thought of.
How does the idea of "actual entities" fit into this picture? Whitehead's actual entities are precisely processes in the ordinary world. Each process is caused by other processes, and in turn it causes yet other processes. A prime characteristic of a process is where and when it takes place, relative to other processes.Chjoaygame (talk) 09:10, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for the detailed response. I'm not sure about the ontology of things inside fictions. My realist intuition about ontology concerns more the ontology of the actual world. So for me the question of whether to adopt Aristotle's or Leibniz's or Whitehead's ontology would be primarily about which one is true. This of course is often more difficult to figure out than in the case of a disagreement between empirical theories since rational intuition may be less reliable than sensory observation.
But I think I like Whitehead's dedication to actuality. There is a view called "actualism" in contemporary metaphysics. It's basic idea is that existence/reality/being is primarily actual. We can still talk about merely possible things, like possible objects or possible worlds. But their existence is non-fundamental: It's grounded somewhere in something actual. It's sounds to me like we might list Whitehead among the actualists.Phlsph7 (talk) 11:49, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
By mentioning Whitehead, I led us off the point of my initial comment, which was about your added section. It's not just the paper-and-ink printedness of books that is ingredient in their status as reliable sources. There are other factors.Chjoaygame (talk) 13:38, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
For me, an ontology is not true-or-false. Rather, it makes sense, or it doesn't make sense, or is useful or not, for my purpose. I may use an ontology to help me examine substantial questions of truth.Chjoaygame (talk) 01:30, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
Do you think that ontology is a science in the widest sense? Because if it's not about truth, it might be better to categorize it as something like an art or a technology. For example we might provisionally say that science aims at producing true sentences while technology aims at producing useful things.
Do you think that ontology is a science in the widest sense? I am not sure exactly what is a science. I am not sure that science has to be solely about truth. I value truth, but I think it doesn't exhaust all that we need. I am not in touch will all the latest, but perhaps I may refer to the mediaeval schoolwork. I think ontology may be partly trivial, that is to say, concerned with grammar, rhetoric, and logic. Or perhaps it belongs to philosophy. I don't know how philosophy is classified. It seems it isn't in the quadrivium. I guess it is postgraduate, a topic in which one may get a doctorate. I think the study of ontology is a rational activity, but I am not sure how to proceed from there.
Because if it's not about truth, it might be better to categorize it as something like an art or a technology. For example we might provisionally say that science aims at producing true sentences while technology aims at producing useful things. I am not very deeply into such a classification scheme.
Ok, back here. If pushed for a choice amongst the three that you offer, I would say that philosophy, with its ingredient ontology, is an art.
Which other factors did you have in mind in favor of printed media? Perhaps I am mistaken, but I am inclined to think that printed textbooks and monographs are mostly subject to more sustained processes for assessing their reliability as Wikipedia sources.Chjoaygame (talk) 10:42, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
I think you are right to say that science is about more than just truth. For example a lucky guess might be true, but we wouldn't call it scientific. Another important ingredient, I think, is providing justification for the claims. In the empirical sciences this happens through the scientific method which involves sensory observations that in principle every "normal" observer would make when put in the right situation. But this doesn't work for formal sciences like mathematics. And it seems to me that this also doesn't get you very far in philosophy. One way to apply this idea from the empirical sciences is to extend the scientific method by allowing non-sensory evidence, e.g. from what we might call "rational intuition". In this interpretation philosophy and, by extension, ontology are sciences in a wider sense: they aim at truth, and they try to get there by providing evidence and arguments based on this evidence. It's just that they rely on evidence that isn't accepted (but often presupposed) by the empirical sciences. Ideally this evidence is also such that every "normal" rational being would accept it so that there is a general scientific consensus at least on the foundations. This is the part where philosophy is still lacking behind compared to other sciences.
At least that's the view that I find most attractive. But of course it doesn't work if you remove truth from the equation.
I think basically we are in agreement that, for most part, printed publications are more reliable because more effort goes into ensuring the quality and reliability of their contents.Phlsph7 (talk) 12:50, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
Need to remember Einstein's correct dictum that in physics (as in other empirical sciences), it is the theory that decides what can be observed. Abduction, the making of lucky guesses, perhaps, as you say, including "rational intuition", is an important creative contributor to science.
I am not keen on the proposition that philosophical questions can be decided by evidence, unless one sees valid pure reason as 'evidence', a view that I think strains language. Philosophy aims at things well outside the scope of truth. It aims to make sense of things. Truth is ingredient in that, but it has other ingredients. I think you would be shocked if you were to appreciate the depth of philosophical incompetence and nonsense that is to be found in physics. I think that much that passes for "general scientific consensus" is nonsense. The "normal" rational being is a rarity.Chjoaygame (talk) 14:09, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
I think we can agree that, among other things, philosophers argue. Arguments, whether deductive or defeasible ones, depend on premises. A valid argument only supports its conclusion if its premises are true. So the question is where these premises come from. In some cases they come from other arguments, but in other cases they come directly from experiences, for example from perceptions/observations. Rational intuition, as I see it, can provide premises (or maybe better: provide evidence/justification for premises) in a way similar to perception. So, in this sense, intuition is not an argument like abduction. Sometimes when considering a proposition we get the impression that this proposition is true. In some cases this may be based on previous experiences but in other cases it isn't. These cases where it isn't (or at least a subset of them) are rational intuitions. Examples might be: "2 + 2 = 4" in mathematics, "negative entities (like holes, cracks or shadows) depend on positive entities" in ontology, "it's morally wrong to torture innocent people for fun" in ethics. These intuitions provide justification but are fallible.
It might be helpful to unpack the notion of "making sense". One way to make sense of things is to explain them. One way science does this is by observing regularities (e.g. objects fall when we drop them) and positing laws/force (gravitation) to explain the observation. Is that the notion of sense-making you have in mind?Phlsph7 (talk) 04:06, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
I think we can agree that, among other things, philosophers argue. Arguments, whether deductive or defeasible ones, depend on premises. A valid argument only supports its conclusion if its premises are true. So the question is where these premises come from. In some cases they come from other arguments ok
but in other cases they come directly from experiences, for example from perceptions/observations. I think that every proposition has important ingredients that do not come directly from sensation. (Not sure exactly what you mean by 'directly from experience'; people vary in their ideas on that.) Need to remember Einstein's correct dictum that in physics (as in other empirical sciences), it is the theory that decides what can be observed.
Rational intuition, as I see it, can provide premises (or maybe better: provide evidence/justification for premises) in a way similar to perception. So, in this sense, intuition is not an argument like abduction. I don't see abduction per se as an argument. I see it as an example of rational intuition, if you like.
Sometimes when considering a proposition we get the impression that this proposition is true. In some cases this may be based on previous experiences but in other cases it isn't. These cases where it isn't (or at least a subset of them) are rational intuitions.Examples might be: "2 + 2 = 4" in mathematics, "negative entities (like holes, cracks or shadows) depend on positive entities" in ontology, "it's morally wrong to torture innocent people for fun" in ethics. These intuitions provide justification but are fallible. A fallible justification only just scrapes in as a justification.
It might be helpful to unpack the notion of "making sense". One way to make sense of things is to explain them. One way science does this is by observing regularities (e.g. objects fall when we drop them) and positing laws/force (gravitation) to explain the observation. Is that the notion of sense-making you have in mind? I have in mind a more primitive kind of sense. Yes, explanations contribute much to sense making, but plenty of things make sense that, to us, are apparently inexplicable. I think it is not the main business of philosophy to explain things scientifically. It seems to me that its role is more to consider the structure and bases of proposed explanations, as well as of non-explanatory accounts, not only in science, but also in art and technology?
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Extended modal realism
Hi there Phlsph7, a belated welcome to Wikipedia! I came across the page you created Extended modal realism while doing new pages patrol. I just wanted to drop by to leave a couple of notes. First, I see you used a version of your extended modal realism text to make Modal_realism#Extended_modal_realism. It's generally poor practice for us to host several paragraphs of the same text in two different articles since it makes keeping that text up-to-date more challenging (someone might update one but forget the other). For what it's worth, I'd recommend shortening the material at Modal_realism#Extended_modal_realism to make it more of a high-level summary of Extended modal realism. A second note, the text at Extended modal realism is quite dense. Wikipedia articles should be accessible to a broad audience. Articles on very niche topics need not be understandable to all, but we should aim to write articles that are understood outside of our field to the extent possible. Perhaps you could have a non-philosopher take a look and tell you what parts they struggle with? Otherwise I hope all is well. If you have questions/concerns, you can ask me here, or find faster more experienced help at WP:TEAHOUSE. All the best, Ajpolino (talk) 20:39, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for your helpful feedback. I think you were right to point out that Modal_realism#Extended_modal_realism goes too much into detail and that Extended modal realism should be more accessible. I hope to address these issues once I have the time.
Finding time is always the struggle here. Anyway yes, this is a fairly common problem, especially for broader overview articles whose sections are each deserving of their own articles (as an extreme example, see Philosophy where just about every section title is also the title of an article). There's no tried-and-true rule for dealing with this. Many editors use a system where they write up the more specific article (extended modal realism in this case), then copy/paste the lead to serve as the subsection of the parent article (in this case Modal_realism#Extended_modal_realism). Some do transclude that section as you suggested; relevant guideline here. For what it's worth, my personal opinion is that cobbling together an overview article from the lead sections of its various subtopics can create a Frankenstein's monster that flows poorly and is not a very compelling read. So I typically work on the more specific article first, then go to the parent article and try to churn out a paragraph or two that both summarize the subtopic, and fit into the flow of the parent article (though as you said, finding the time is always a trick). If your interests are fairly niche topics (as mine are and, forgive me for saying, yours seem to be) it's likely that no one else will come along to improve your text for quite some time. So it may be worth your time to put that extra coat of polish on these articles before your attention moves on to other things. Pardon the long reply. I hope all is well on your end. Ajpolino (talk) 17:59, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for your detailed reply and the useful links. I think finishing the specific article first before articulating the summary is a good idea. I'll keep the points you raised in mind. All the best, Phlsph7 (talk) 08:03, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
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An understanding of the sources might appear original to you without being OR.
In Empirical evidenceyou accused me of proposing original research. I simply presented my understanding of the literature that I consider relevant to the article. It can very well be that this appears original to you, because you have not read these sources, read them but understood them differently or other reasons. Be careful of not to too quickly accuse others of proposing OR in these situations. You also have your understanding of the sources. We all have our understanding of the sources and our view on their reliability, notability, etc. The only way it can work is by being respectful of each others and discuss in good faith our respective understanding. If the discussion fails, we can do an RfC to include more people in the discussion, but we never accuse someone of not discussing properly or of doing OR, etc., only because we don't reach an agreement. Dominic Mayers (talk) 21:13, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
Yes, but this comment was only indirectly about the article. It was about the importance of discussing the sources in a respectful manner, in particular, of not accusing others of proposing OR simply because we do not share their understanding of the sources. Editors must do a synthesis of the sources to explain the topic to a large audience. We should not conclude immediately that it is OR. It's the role of the editors to understand the relevant points of view in these sources and to present them in a way that is adequate in a Wikipedia article. Wikipedia is built from reliable secondary sources (reliable journals, well known authors, etc.) and tertiary sources (other encyclopedia) and editors must do a synthesis of all that without giving undue weight to any point of view.
In our case, I have noticed that the JTB point of view on knowledge is being emphasized in tertiary sources on the specific subject "epistemology", but other sources (including other encyclopedia articles) present other points of view on knowledge. In Wikipedia, we should not present the JTB point of view as if it was the truth, even if it shows up in a few encyclopedia. Anyway, I agree that this last paragraph should be discussed in the talk page of the article. Here, my goal (in the first paragraph) was only to say that we must be respectful of others and not accuse each others of pushing OR. Dominic Mayers (talk) 10:50, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
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Hey, thanks so much for your additions to the logic article. They're huge improvements and I really appreciate the energy you must have spent to make them. I'm going to tinker with the prose and structure to try to make it more accessible. I apologize in advance if this is annoying (I know I sometimes feel that way when people go messing with things I've written!), and I'll be sure to respect the intent behind your contributions and open a discussion before making any substantive changes. Botterweg14 (talk)19:05, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up. Articles often profit from being based on more than one perspective and the extra subdivisions should be helpful to the reader. I have the impression that our ideas of how to present the material are not too far from each other. So it might be faster to just edit and re-edit the article. If we hit a dead end, we can still move to the talk-page. Phlsph7 (talk) 07:26, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
Why that initial sentence is unnecessary
Philosophers in the 20th century started to investigate the "evidential relation", the relation between evidence and the proposition supported by it. User:Phlsph7
Hello Uni3993 and thanks for bringing this to the talk page. It seems to me that the original formulation makes the issue of the evidential relation itself more explicit. Your formulation, on the other hand, focuses more on the intellectual history, which is not discussed in detail in the article. The same phrase as your suggestion is already used in the section "Nature of the evidential relation", where such details fit better. Phlsph7 (talk) 06:04, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
Ok, then can we at least add "In philosophy,". Because I want some degree of separation between philosophical and non philosophical discussions on the subject. Because evidential relation is a completely a philosophical subject. For example someone studying Physics that doesn't take the optional History and Philosophy of science course will never hear the term evidential relation. This is the final change I want really and I think its a very reasonable addition. Uni3993 (talk) 11:03, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
The issue of evidential relations is relevant to many fields, not just philosophy. But you may be right that the specific term "evidential relation" is mainly used in philosophy. In this case, it would make most sense to qualify not the whole statement but only the terminology, i.e. by adding the "in philosophy" at the end of this sentence:
In order for something to act as evidence for a hypothesis, it has to stand in the right relation to it, referred to as the "evidential relation" in philosophy.
Please have a look at the current edition it include the variation of the sentence you told. Also one thing to note, as a person very interested in philosophy I can understand you want to consider philosophy as the basis of everything including science but that is not the case science can very well exists without philosophy. In fact famous scientists like Hawking questioned the necessity of philosophy. And again a person that studied physics in university for example will never hear the term "Hypothetico-deductive model" as its a purely related to the philosophy of science which is an optional not required course in physics programs for example. I'm ok with not grouping nature of and evidence and nature of evidential relation as philosophy of evidence, so please accept the current iteration of the last paragraph. After this edit im completely content with the current version of the article. Uni3993 (talk) 22:39, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
I don't "consider philosophy as the basis of everything", but that is besides the point. Your new version works fine with me. I'm happy that we were able to solve it. Phlsph7 (talk) 06:57, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
Enquiry
Was that you who removed my comment on Dunning-Kruger? And if so, why?
This whole Dunning-Kruger thing is a big mistake and most of what is being written about it is quite incorrect -- even though some of it is being written by bright thoughtful people.
I've been watching is since the beginning with some amusement, and am now concerned that it is morphing into serious academic error -- so I would like to hear from you if you don't see that point.
My e-mail is david.lloydjones@gmail.com (I don't operate anonymously, unlike all the bullshit artists out there) and it would be best if you'd just answer me directly rather than through the cumbersome Wikipedia pages.
Best wishes,
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Hello David Lloyd-Jones, I removed your talk page entry because it does not comply with the talk page guidelines as explained in my edit summary here: Talk pages are for improving the encyclopedia, not for expressing personal opinions on a subject or an editor. One of our main jobs here is to introduce and summarize the academic discourse on the subject. It's not our job to correct the purported errors that the academic community on a specific topic commits as a whole. Implying that anonymous wikipedia editors are all "bullshit artists" will get you blocked very soon, so I suggest that you are more careful with what expressions you use. Phlsph7 (talk) 10:43, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
Undid revision
Umm - why did you revert that revision on Philosophical methodology? The paragraph is unwieldy to say the least - nearly impenetrable. The paragraph is not a paragraph that anyone wrote; rather, it is the accumulation of multiple revisions and additions over several years. People keep adding to it, until it looks like the way it does. "A camel is a horse designed by committee." The fact of the matter is that the paragraph describes multiple, distinct elements - in other words, it is not a coherent paragraph, per se, and as such readily lends itself to a bullet list. The bullet list was perfectly appropriate.
If you have a better suggestion for improving or restructuring this paragraph, by all means make it, but imperiously declaring that a bullet list is not appropriate for the introduction, and then reverting without making any improvement, is, well, imperious. What do you suggest? How would you improve this? How would you make this accessible? And who are you to decide how this article should look?
Hi Zweifel and thanks for bringing up the issue. I agree with you that the paragraph is long but I don't think that it is impenetrable or inaccessible. However, the length is to be expected since it constitutes a summary of the section "Methods", which contains the bulk of the material of the whole article. In principle, the idea of converting it into a list is not bad, I agree. As you see in your list, each point corresponds to one of the subsections. Because of this, the list is in one sense superfluous since the content box right below the lead lists all the subsections as well.
My main objection to your suggestion is that the lead section is not a good place for long lists. If you have a look around at other wikipedia articles on philosophical topics (or, for that matter, on any topic) there are only few articles that use a list in their lead section and even fewer (if any?) that use a very long list.
Another approach would be to split the paragraph into two, maybe right after the sentence on "ordinary language philosophy". This has the advantage of getting the paragraph size down but it has the disadvantage of having two separate paragraphs summarizing the section "Methods". Phlsph7 (talk) 18:59, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
This was heavy-handed. You made this decision to revert the edit without consultation on the talk page. This page does not belong to you. If you have the perception that lists are inappropriate in introductory sections, so be it, but I have been a Wikipedia editor for quite a long time, and I have a different perception. You made this change without considering Wikipedia:Consensus. I literally took the text from the original and displayed it as a list. I made no substantive change to the article. This is not your article, and you did not discuss the reversion in the Talk page. You simply did it. Zweifel (talk) 00:39, 23 April 2022 (UTC)
Hello Lispenard, there are various linguistic problems with your suggestions, for example "to grasp Platonic form" ("a Platonic form", "the Platonic form" or "Platonic forms"?), "failing remark" ("a failing remark" or "failing to remark"?), or "ill-able" (unable), among others. I don't want to offend you but it sounds to me that these expressions were originally formed in another language with a quite different structure of articles and prepositions and were then translated word-by-word to English, which usually does not work. However, your latest edit is fine. Phlsph7 (talk) 10:06, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
I prefer this over unable, because ill-able leaves the door somewhat ajar to a question of ability, while unable indicates more of a being shut and locked tight sort of predicament. Lispenard (talk) 11:15, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
i don't know: it's a matter of style and not meaning here, so it can be written either way.
Foregoing (to) pay any caution, or (to) heed any warning, the reckless man set out quickly in search of the rumoured treasure. Lispenard (talk) 11:40, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
On this view, proven difficulty may arise wherein, being scarcely fit and not well able to come in contact with Platonic form, the mind fail remark said unique origination, and blinded, the soul fail experience, left only together the neglect to thereby differentiate as such the genuine and the distinct, wholly original and apart from any mere simulacra found about the sensory world. Lispenard (talk) 15:14, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
I checked a few major dictionaries, like the American Heritage Dictionary or Collins Dictionary: they don't have the term "ill-able". However, it's often difficult to draw the line between false and extremely uncommon. Many expressions are acceptable in poetry that constitute errors in regular texts. In normal contexts, for example, countable nouns like "Platonic form" need an article (or a similar expression) in their singular form. It's usually advantageous for encyclopedia articles to choose the formulation the reader is most familiar with, everything else being equal. This is true especially when trying to convey difficult ideas, as in the section on the Platonic theory of thought. Phlsph7 (talk) 04:16, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
An article you recently created, Definitions of knowledge, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. PRAXIDICAE💕14:46, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
Hello Praxidicae, I think that everything is well-sourced in this article. The lead does not have any sources since it just repeats material from the body of the article in accordance with MOS:LEADCITE. Please let me know which specific claim you think is unsourced in case you still have doubts. The sources also establish notability, for example, here, here, or here. If you still believe that the topic lacks notability despite these sources, then please explain your reasons. Phlsph7 (talk) 16:04, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
@Praxidicae: I am aware of WP:NOTESSAY and I do not think that it applies here. Could you cite the passages you believe express "particular feelings about a topic (rather than the opinions of experts)"? Phlsph7 (talk) 16:10, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
I think I've answered all the doubts raised by you. I'll go ahead and restore the article to the mainspace unless you have more to add. Phlsph7 (talk) 03:48, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
I have proceeded with the move since there was no further response. If you still have doubts about the quality of the article then please discuss them either here or on the article talk page instead of moving the article again. Phlsph7 (talk) 14:19, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
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This is not a case of disruptive editing. Your nomination of deletion is in violation of WP:BUNDLE. I don't object to you starting a new AFD for this article, as I explained in my edit summary. It's not a good idea to give a blocking warning for the first revert. I suggest that you follow Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle here. Phlsph7 (talk) 18:43, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
No, it isn't. You're welcome to make your arguments at AFD but you are not permitted to remove the AFD tags or nominations within the AFD itself. PRAXIDICAE💕18:44, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
Here's your original sentence to which you have reverted:
Having eaten the first cookie, Gifre could stop eating cookies, which is the best alternative. But after having tasted one cookie, Gifre would freely decide to continue eating cookies until the whole bag is finished, which would result in a terrible stomach ache and would be the worst alternative.
I don't accept the logic of your reason for reversion, but even if the logic is correct, then in the phrase "could stop eating cookies", could should also be would. I still contend that could is logically and semantically correct in both instances.
Hello Harry Audus. Thanks for your improvements to the article Consequentialism and for bringing this issue to the talk page. As for this particular change, I hope we can agree at least on two things: (1) both versions are gramatically correct; (2) they have slightly different meanings.
The central point is that Gifre would decide to continue eating even thought he could stop. This point is lost in your first suggestion. We turn it into a contradiction if we implement your second suggestion by changing "Gifre could stop eating cookies, which is the best alternative" into "Gifre would stop eating cookies, which is the best alternative". In this case, he would stop eating and he would continue eating. It might be helpful for the discussion if you have a short look at the source of this thought experiment in Douglas W. Portmore's "Opting for the Best: Oughts and Options", chapter "5. Rationalist Maximalism". Phlsph7 (talk) 05:11, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
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For all the work you've done creating, expanding and improving important philosophy articles, and for putting up with recent discussions at WikiProject Philosophy here and at de.wiki. Alduin2000 (talk) 18:37, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for making a suggestion at Ontology that could salvage at least some of my work there. I'm done editing that page, because the conversation became too toxic for me to enjoy it anymore. Maybe I'd revisit it later. I hope you will make the edit you suggested. Have a nice day.Larataguera (talk) 15:45, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
Hi Biogeographist and thanks for pointing me to this article. It cites only one source: pages 3 - 11 from "Ideas of the great philosophers" by William S Sahakian and Mabel Lewis Sahakian. It follows this sources very closely: both contain one short section named "Time", another named "Custom", another named "Intuition", etc. The paraphrase seems to be sufficient that it does not constitute a copyright violation, at least on the first look. And Earwig does not report any copyright violations either. But giving so much weight to such a short source text is definitely not a good idea.
The topic in itself seems to make sense. There are apparently other reliable sources on this topic that could be used, like here, here, here, here, and here. I think it would be a good idea to include them in the text and to modify the text accordingly: it should represent more or less the gist of what most of these sources agree on and not just everything a single source has to say on the topic. This may also reveal some questionable or false information. For example, as far as I know, naive realism is usually understood as a theory of perception without implying the metaphysical claim that "sounds beyond the range of human hearing" and "x-rays" do not exist. I've added this to the bottom of my todo list, but this may still take quite a while before I get to it, if I do. But I would be happy to assist if you or someone else wants to give it a try. Phlsph7 (talk) 16:21, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
Thanks; those are good points. I just searched for criteri* in The Oxford Handbook of Truth, which turned up some possible leads in multiple chapters, including the chapter on "Truth pluralism", which suggests right away a link to Pluralist theories of truth, which I just added to the article's "See also" section. Biogeographist (talk) 18:21, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
The topic apparently overlaps with theories of truth. One difference seems to be that theories of truth are mainly about determining the nature of truth while criteria of truth are wider in the sense that they are about how to figure out whether something is true, like looking for possible clues that something is true. Phlsph7 (talk) 08:49, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
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Hi Phlsph7. You've added multiple short form reference ls to this article, without defining what those works are. For instance you've added "Håkansson & Westander 2013" but you need to add a full cite to explain what work that is referring to. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 17:51, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
Hi, again, thank you for your original review of the GAN for Huntsville, Alabama. I've rewritten a lot of the article and changed the things you suggested, and have renominated in. Would you mind reviewing it again? Thank you! --MyCatIsAChonk (talk) 14:40, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
Hi MyCatIsAChonk and thanks for all the changes following the last nomination. All the "citation needed" tags have been addressed and the unreliable sources were removed. I just spotted a few minor claims that still lack sources:
Major stations include WHNT 19.1 CBS, WHIQ 25.1 PBS/Alabama Public Television, WAFF 48.1 NBC, and WZDX 54.1 FOX.
The airport is a general aviation airport and does not have any regularly-scheduled commercial services.
The former chief of police was appointed as its director.
These organizations are located in Huntsville but operate both in the city and outside with HCRU responding to many cave rescue calls coming from caves well outside the city limits.
Another thing that caught my eye is that the article has many subsections, which makes the contents overview really long. You could use "{{TOC limit|3}}" to exclude the subsubsection from the overview.
From what I can tell, all the other points from the last review have also been addressed. It looks much better now. It's probably better if someone else does the second review. Good luck with the GAN! Phlsph7 (talk) 16:26, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
Nice work! Such vital-topic articles deserve it. After it passes the GA hurdle (shouldn't be too difficult) please consider nominating it for DYK for some Main Page exposure. BorgQueen (talk) 09:01, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
@BorgQueen: Thanks for the feedback! The DYK nomination afterwards sounds like a good idea. Do you have some experience concerning the DYK process? Phlsph7 (talk) 09:08, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
Well yes, if you're not familiar with it, I can nominate it for you. Unless someone else beats me to it, that is. Lol. BorgQueen (talk) 09:11, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
Great, I would get back to you once the process is complete so we can figure something out. Judging from my other GA nominations, it may take a while though. Phlsph7 (talk) 09:18, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
@WhatamIdoing: Thanks a lot for the help! This makes it much easier to gloss over the information. I think the script does not see explanatory footnotes as references but please let me know if you come across cases where it gets it wrong. Feel free to make more changes if something catches your eye. I usually check the changes so I'll make adjustments if I think something is off the mark. Phlsph7 (talk) 17:47, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
You're welcome. How does the script interact with these two bits of wikitext?
<ref name="Levi" group="Notes">Levi (2012), pp. 32–37.</ref>
<ref name="Levi" group="Notes">Numbers are given as thousands of pairs of Levi jeans sold worldwide in each year.</ref>
References usually are displayed as "[1][2][3]" while other footnotes usually have the form "[a][b][c]" or "[i][ii][iii]". The script looks whether there is a number inside the brackets. If yes, it sees it a reference. If no, it sees it as an explanatory footnote. Your examples are displayed as "[Notes 1]" and are categorized as references because of the number "1". So the second one is falsely treated as a reference. Do you know if this style is commonly used for references or for notes? It would be relatively easy to modify the script to check whether the term "Notes" appears inside the brackets. Phlsph7 (talk) 18:29, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
I think the simplest and most reliable way to address this is to document it as a limitation, and then not worry about it ("It's not a bug – it's a feature!"). There are always going to be a certain number of <ref>Short explanations</ref> that aren't separated from the list of sources at all, so the problem will exist even if you fix this one.
The opposite problem also exists. I used a non-standard approach when presenting a specific example in Breast cancer awareness#Increased resources for treatment and research (end of the first paragraph). Its primary purpose is "explanatory", but it also contains a source. I don't think you should set your goal on Six Sigma levels of success. It might even be good for it to have some obviously wrong items, to remind reviewers not to blindly do whatever the computer says to do. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:35, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
I went ahead and modified the script to take care of the standards for explanatory footnotes discussed at WP:EXPLNOTE. But not all articles follow these standards and I'm sure there are many more styles out there not discussed in this document. You are right this should be mentioned as a limitation so I restored a modified version of your explanation. Phlsph7 (talk) 09:31, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
Thanks. I hope your script results in more sources being added. It sometimes feels like experienced editors spend more time removing (possibly bad) sources than adding them. WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:03, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
Modern use of the word 'conscious' in the article for Experience
Today this concept [conscious] has become part of semantics, psychiatry and neurology [meaning, cognition, perception]. When talking in general conversation...try using awareness and natural. The lead paragraph for Experience is without category or content, "needs major work". Please review what you know about conscious, it has very much changed because of Process philosophy for philosophy...Thanks for kind tolerance of my attempts to edit.Arnbiology (talk) 17:12, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
Hello Arnbiology and thanks for your concern for the article Experience. I'm not sure what you mean by the claim that The lead paragraph for Experience is without category or content. The very first sentence associated the term with various categories. And this is a form of content.
Wikipedia tries to provide a general perspective on its topics and not specifically the perspective associated with process philosophy. Various of your comments indicate that your primary motivation for contributing to Wikipedia is to promote process philosophy. In that case, Wikipedia may not be the right to publish your ideas, see WP:NPOV, WP:NOBLECAUSE and WP:RIGHTGREATWRONGS. If you want to write on process philosophy then I suggest that you focus on articles that have specifically this topic and leave other articles as they are. Phlsph7 (talk) 17:32, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Phlsph7! I've considered your reversion of an edit done by myself, done in Logic, however, there really aren't much sources to this concept and the reason of such edit was for readers to start conceiving this idea. Greetings! Active2023 (talk) 01:30, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello Active2023 and thanks for bringing this to the talk page. One of the key policies of Wikipedia is WP:VERIFY. It states that "all material must be attributable to reliable, published sources". In this sense, Wikipedia just reports what is already published elsewhere and does not aim to popularize newly conceived ideas, see WP:No original research. Articles on very general topics, like Logic, should give a bird's-eye view of their field and only go over the most important ideas discussed in the academic literature. Phlsph7 (talk) 05:52, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Phylsph7. Thank you for your work on the Logical reasoning wiki. I have completed the initial review. I've put it on hold because of a copyright question-mark concerning the Versailles propaganda poster. More details in the comments on 6b. All else was a pass. Please correct or update the image. The caption was good and relevant and I would hate to see you not add any image to your "As a skill" section over a copyright concern especially when propaganda examples are easy to access. Case in point, the top item in the "Did you know..." section for 18 April 2023 is an example of propaganda you could use. That wiki in fact discusses the logical merits of that British recruitment poster and would be a good example to use in the stead of the Versailles poster. Let me know if you have any questions. I will likely update the review within 24 hours of your corrections.
Non-pegasus (talk) 00:07, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
Hello Non-pegasus and thanks for your review! I'm glad that you caught the recently flagged copyright problem for the image of the Versailles poster. Your suggestion works fine as an alternative so I replaced the image and slightly modified the text. Please let me know if other issues catch your eye. Phlsph7 (talk) 07:49, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
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A bot will add the good article icon to the article and will remove the nomination from the GA nominations page. This bot should also use GANotice to send you a message that the article has passed. I have added Logical reasoning to the list of "Philosophy" Good articles under the "Philosophy and Religion" section. Well done 🦄 Non-pegasus (talk) 11:12, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
Thanks again for taking the time. I've copied part of our exchange here to the review page since this background information may be of interest to other editors concerned with the article and the review. Phlsph7 (talk) 12:15, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
Experience is a natural state[1] not a conscious state, please look at "Experience lead paragraph again", and remove any reference to conscious states from the lead. Think about it, thanks ArnoldArnbiology (talk) 22:17, 24 April 2023 (UTC
Thank you for your input. You are right that some theorists consider experience a natural state. Experience is commonly associated with consciousness, see the sources in the section Experience#As_conscious_event or, for example, [1]. I'm not sure what background assumptions you hold, but, in a general sense, experience can be both conscious and natural, there is no contradiction here. Phlsph7 (talk) 07:45, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
I'm not sure what you are trying to express. Regarding this edit: My point was the that, as far as I can tell, the parameter "loc-url" is not defined for the Template:Sfn. So {{sfn|Smith|loc-url=http://example.com/|loc=chapter 1}} does not work but can be replaced by {{sfn|Smith|loc=[http://example.com/ chapter 1]}} to get the same effect. See Template:Sfn#Adding_a_URL_for_the_page_or_location. Phlsph7 (talk) 13:21, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
PS: BTW, I'm fooling with {{sfnm}} in my sandbox. Have a look. I'm having trouble with the et al cites, but I seem to recall there was a workaround. Plus "Hintikka & Spade" isn't correctly formatted yet... Actually, I think there are 4 versions in the Bibliography.
PPS: You need to decide between "Eemeren, Frans H. van" and "van Eemeren, Frans H." In Bibliography, two instances of the former, one of the latter. § Lingzhi (talk) 14:51, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
Normally, I use the multiref2-template but if all references are in the sfn format, the sfnm-template seems to be more useful. I assume it should be "van Eemeren, Frans H." so I changed it accordingly. I removed the additional versions of "Hintikka & Spade": they all refer to same article and only differ concerning the relevant section. Phlsph7 (talk) 16:11, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
(←) Yes, I initially tried to adhere to your preferred style by using the {{multiref2}} format. But when I placed {{sfn}} templates inside {{multiref2}}, the multi-line formatting of the latter displayed in body text. It was an ugly mess... BTW, what does "em1589" in this mean: "Pedemonte 2018, pp. em1589"? § Lingzhi (talk) 20:30, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
Inside multiref2, you can use harvnb instead of sfn, the basic parameters are the same otherwise. It seems "em1589" is the article number used by the publisher. I replaced it since this has nothing to do with the page number. After the reference overhaul, the article looks much tidier now. Phlsph7 (talk) 07:08, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
I'm glad it looks better. I wrote a couple Python programs to fix it. :-) So now I have to start actually reading it, which will take time. Days, at least. :-) BTW, if you are headed to FAC, don't be shocked if it fails the first time. It's huge and complicated. There are many nooks and crannies where errors could hide. And there are always many details to be sharpened. It's gonna be a big job. You might wanna get one or two others to collaborate with you, perhaps from WikiProject Philosophy. § Lingzhi (talk) 07:15, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
Using scripts to assist in this task sounds like a good idea. Doing all of this by hand would have been incredibly laborious. I would like to get the article to FA eventually but you are right that this would be a rather big project. I'll have to see how to go about that. Phlsph7 (talk) 09:13, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
(←) I'm a little busy at the moment. I'm gonna do a source spot check later, maybe today, maybe tomorrow, sometime soon-ish. if you have any pdfs you wanna email me, now would be a good time. :-) § Lingzhi (talk) 02:05, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
I'm happy to hear that things are moving forward. Many of the sources are available online, either in full or as a partial preview covering the relevant pages. If you lack access to some particular references that should be checked then please let me know so I can see if I can find links or provide quotations. Phlsph7 (talk) 06:53, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi. I have seen that your article Logic has passed GA. If this article is supposed to be listed as Philosophy and Religion, then it might be listed on Philosophy, but I couldn't find any sections that include this article. Should I put it in the "Philosophies and philosophical movements" section? I am not actually an expert in philosophy, but as a mathematics part relatedly, I would gladly want to see if this can be promoted to FAC. Regards, Dedhert.Jr (talk) 06:37, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
Hello Dedhert.Jr and thanks for pointing this out. It's not a perfect match but the section "Philosophies and philosophical movements" is probably the best fit.
I'm hoping to get it to FA status. It could be quite a challenge since with such a wide and complex article, many things can go wrong. Phlsph7 (talk) 07:38, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
Hey. I was by coincidence looking at the Reward Board and saw your two articles, including Logic. Then I talked to the wub about Education (I am an English teacher). He said you are working on it, which I did not know... Are you gonna go for that reward? I could find another article... I call dibs one... I call dibs on History of science. :-) § Lingzhi (talk) 11:45, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi Lingzhi. So far, I have done most of the work on my own so I would be happy to get some outside feedback. I've already implemented most of the main changes. There are still various minor things that I was planning to do over the next few days before the GA nomination. But help is always appreciated. I was thinking about going for the reward but this is probably still months from now, given the review waiting times for this type of article.
The article History of science sounds like an interesting choice. It's probably too long and has a huge table of contents. Various subsections and passages lack references. That could be a project to keep you engaged for a while. Phlsph7 (talk) 13:09, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
On 21 May 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Logic, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Aristotle's system of logic formed the foundation of logical thought for more than 2,000 years until the advent of modern symbolic logic? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Logic. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Logic), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Hi Vortex3427 and thanks for the suggestion. It is a reliable source so it could be used in the article. I'm not sure how to best use it. Its main topic is inner voices, which belongs to verbal inner intrapersonal communication. This is covered in the section Intrapersonal communication#Types. But we have to be careful since it is written for a rather general audience and contains many simplifications. Phlsph7 (talk) 11:41, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
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Vital barnstar
Vital Barnstar
Long overdue. You did some insane work to improve articles in the Vital list. Your contributions will not go unnoticed by the readers.
@CactiStaccingCrane: Thank you for the barnstar! It's a good encouragement to keep contributing. Some of the vital articles can be difficult to improve if they attract argumentative editors with very different opinions. I was lucky with the ones I recently worked with since the process went relatively smooth. Phlsph7 (talk) 07:48, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
Thank you and a request
Thank you very much for your readability script which I have just installed after learning of it here.
Hello Chidgk1 and thanks for the suggestion. I managed to include a rough implementation. It uses a few simplification to make the process easier, like ignoring the SMOG rules about the ten-sentence samples, numbers, and abbreviations. I compared it with some other online SMOG calculators and it gets roughly the same results. The main source of error is probably the syllable count for each word. Phlsph7 (talk) 11:57, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
Tell me this why don't you want to add topics to articles
Why don't you want to add "In common usage, philosophy and cognitive science," to articles about concepts used in philosophy, cognitive science and outside any academic field (common usage)? 79.131.29.193 (talk) 03:52, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
I am not Uni3993's sock-poppet, I'm someone else. But you should be able to give me the reason even if you think I am him. --119.198.90.189 (talk) 19:22, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
Hey, I spent a tedious 30+ minutes manually alphabetizing the bibliography on the philosophy page at some point prior to your appending further sources yesterday. I'll integrate those ones, but would you mind observing the alphabetical organization moving forward? Besides just looking cleaner, it makes it easier for other odd folks like me, who typically skim the bibliography to decide if an entry/article/book is even serious enough to be worth reading.
(I did not convert any <ref> citations because I'm really hoping that they mostly drop out over the course of other content-based edits. Also: even more tedious. If we get the article to a place we're happy with, we can deal with those then.)
@PatrickJWelsh: Sorry for the extra work and thanks for taking care of it! It's a good idea to put them in alphabetical order right when adding them.
I'm planning convert all the references to the short footnote format (like in the article history of philosophy) sometime in the next few days to have a consistent reference format. I have a script that does half of the job, so hopefully it won't be too much work.
On a related note: since our Bibliography subsection is already quite long and keeps on growing, I don't think that we need the long section "Further reading". I was thinking about moving it to the article Outline of philosophy, which only has a very short section on philosophical literature. What do you think? Phlsph7 (talk) 07:43, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
Oh, hey! – If you have a semi-automated way of putting everything in order all at once, then by all means just tack stuff on to the end while you're in the middle of this large-scale edit. I didn't know that was possible. It doesn't bother me if the bibliography is kind of a mess for a few weeks or whatever. My concern was just that if no one did anything now it would only just get worse and worse.
Also, yes, I agree about getting rid of the Further reading list. These are, in my view, uselessly arbitrary. This is a great time to delete it completely. I can't imagine anyone conferring with even a better curated list.
That's a good compromise in case anyone thinks it is important to maintain. (My theory is that the only people who pay any attention to these lists are editors who only want to add their own favorite titles to already overlong lists. But this is just a hunch. I have no real data.) Patrick J. Welsh (talk) 16:30, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
Hey @Phlsph7:, I'm a fan of some of your AI work and it looks like we have some overlapping interests. These include AI (I'm pretty interested in exploiting AI for reading / note taking + reading, and do bits and pieces in my real life). If you fancied comparing notes / paper reading history sometime I'd be interested. Talpedia13:28, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi Talpedia, that sounds like an interesting idea! I have the impression that a good understanding of the technology is essential to properly make use of it and to avoid all the pitfalls. Phlsph7 (talk) 15:50, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
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Hello Golden and thanks for the suggestion. I have considered using the sfnm template. One thing I dislike about it is that it displays all the references in the same line. This can get confusing if there are many references. The multiref2 template uses a new line for each reference, which I find more helpful for readers. Phlsph7 (talk) 07:12, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
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Hey @Phlsph7, I have no experience working with Wikipedia scripts (although I probably ought to educate myself), but I'm wondering if you have any documentation on the script that, if I understand correctly, you used to at least partially convert ref tags to sfn, or to generate a proper list of works cited?
I've been cleaning up the Martin Heidegger page, and this could save me a lot of tedious labor. Ref tags work fine on short articles, but on larger articles with long histories they make everything very cluttered. It is more difficult to assess sourcing issues for the article as a whole, and it is also more difficult to edit around all the extra text.
@PatrickJWelsh: I haven't published the script I used because it is very unintuitive, far from foolproof, and does not work for all articles. It's semi-automatic and requires a few manual steps. The first step is manual: all reference-tags need to use one of the cite-templates, like "cite book" or "cite journal".[a] Unfortunately, this affects many references (90 by my count) in the Heidegger article:
affected references
Conor Cunningham, Peter M. Candler (eds.), Belief and Metaphysics, SCM Press, p. 267.
Velasquez, M., Philosophy: A Text with Readings (Boston: Cengage Learning, 2012), p. 193.
Hermann Philipse, Heidegger's Philosophy of Being p. 173, Notes to Chapter One, Martin Heidegger, Supplements, trans. John Van Buren p. 183.
Die Lehre vom Urteil im Psychologismus. Ein kritisch-theoretischer Beitrag zur Logik [The Doctrine of Judgment in Psychologism: A Critical-theoretical Contribution to Logic] (1914). Source: Annemarie Gethmann-Siefert, "Martin Heidegger", Theologische Realenzyklopädie, XIV, 1982, p. 562. Now his thesis is included in: M. Heidegger, Frühe Schriften, Frankfurt-am-Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1993.
Joseph J. Kockelmans, Phenomenology and the Natural Sciences: Essays and Translations, Northwestern University Press, 1970, p. 145.
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Sharr, A., Heidegger's Hut (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press), 2006.
Being There, a Spring 2007 article on Heidegger's vacation home for Cabinet magazine.
Emad, Parvis. (2006) "Martin Heidegger – Bernhard Welte Correspondence Seen in the Context of Heidegger's Thought". Heidegger Studies. 22: 197–207. Philosophy Documentation Center website
See The Influence of Augustine on Heidegger: The Emergence of an Augustinian Phenomenology, ed. Craig J. N. de Paulo (Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006.) and also Martin Heidegger's Interpretations of Augustine: Sein und Zeit und Ewigkeit, ed. Frederick Van Fleteren (Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005.)
Augustine of Hippo (2008). Confessions. Chadwick, Henry transl. New York: Oxford University Press, Book XI
Introduction to Metaphysics, trans. by Gregory Fried and Richard Polt (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), p. 89.
Krell, David Farrell. "On the manifold meaning of aletheia: Brentano, Aristotle, Heidegger." Research in Phenomenology 5 (1975): 77–94.
Moran, Dermot. "Heidegger? s Critique of Husserl's and Brentano's Accounts of Intentionality." Inquiry 43, no. 1 (2000): 39–65.
Kelvin Knight, Aristotelian Philosophy: Ethics and Politics from Aristotle to MacIntyre (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007).[pages needed]
Hans-Georg Gadamer, "Martin Heidegger's One Path", in Theodore Kisiel & John van Buren (eds.), Reading Heidegger from the Start: Essays in His Earliest Thought (Albany: SUNY Press, 1994), pp. 22–4.
Ormiston, G. L., & Schrift, A. D., eds., Transforming the Hermeneutic Context: From Nietzsche to Nancy (Albany: SUNY Press, 1990), pp. 32–33.
Robert J. Dostal, "Time and Phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger", in Charles Guignon (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger (Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993), p. 142.
Daniel O. Dahlstrom, "Heidegger's Critique of Husserl", in Theodore Kisiel & John van Buren (eds.), Reading Heidegger from the Start: Essays in His Earliest Thought (Albany: SUNY Press, 1994), p. 244.
Nader El-Bizri, 'Variations ontologiques autour du concept d'angoisse chez Kierkegaard', in Kierkegaard notre contemporain paradoxal (Beirut, 2013), pp. 83–95
Contributions to Philosophy (of the event), 2012 trans. page 369
Heidegger and 'the concept of time' 2002 LILIAN ALWEISS, HISTORY OF THE HUMAN SCIENCES Vol. 15 No. 3
Phenomenology and Time-Consciousness, Michael Kelley, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy https://iep.utm.edu/phe-time/
Thomas Sheehan, "Kehre and Ereignis, a proglenoma to Introduction to Metaphysics" in "A companion to Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics" page 15, 2001,
see also, Sheehan, "Making sense of Heidegger. A paradigm shift." New Heidegger Research. London (England) 2015.
Wrathall, Mark: Heidegger and Unconcealment: Truth, Language, and History, Cambridge University Press, 2011
W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz, The Presocratics in the Thought of Martin Heidegger (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2016), page 58.
Guignon "Being as Appearing" in "A companion to Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics," page 36
Hans Sluga, Heidegger's Crisis: Philosophy and Politics in Nazi Germany (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London: Harvard University Press, 1993), p. 149.
Heidegger, "The Rectorate 1933/34: Facts and Thoughts", in Günther Neske & Emil Kettering (eds.), Martin Heidegger and National Socialism: Questions and Answers (New York: Paragon House, 1990), p. 29.
Elzbieta Ettinger,Hannah Arendt – Martin Heidegger, (New Haven, Conn., & London: Yale University Press, 1995), p. 37.
Emmanuel Faye, Heidegger. Die Einführung des Nationalsozialismus in die Philosophie, Berlin 2009, S. 275–278
Karl Löwith, "My last meeting with Heidegger in Rome", in R. Wolin, The Heidegger Controversy (MIT Press, 1993).
Maier-Katkin, D., Stranger from Abroad: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship and Forgiveness (New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010), p. 249.
Dominique Janicaud, Heidegger en France vol. 1 (Paris: Albin Michel, 2001).
Hannah Arendt, "Martin Heidegger at 80", New York Review of Books, 17/6, (Oct. 21, 1971), pp. 50–54; repr. in Heidegger and Modern Philosophy ed. M. Murray (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978), pp. 293–303
Heidegger, "A Dialogue on Language between a Japanese and an Inquirer", in On the Way to Language (New York: Harper & Row, 1971).
Tao – A New Way Of Thinking: A Translation of the Tao Tê Ching with an Introduction and Commentaries by Chung-yuan Chang, p. 8. 1977. London and Philadelphia: Harper & Row
Heidegger's hidden sources: East Asian influences on his work by Reinhard May, p. XV. Translated, with a complementary essay, by Graham Parkes. 1996. London and New York.
Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1969, bilingual edition
Marc Furstenau and Leslie MacAvoy, "Terrence Malick's Heideggerian Cinema: War and the Question of Being in The Thin Red Line" In The cinema of Terrence Malick: Poetic visions of America, 2nd ed. Edited by Hanna Patterson (London: Wallflower Press 2007): 179–91.
Stanley Cavell, The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film (Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1979): XV.
Georgakis, T., & Ennis, P. J., eds., Heidegger in the Twenty-First Century (Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer, 2015), pp. ix–xiii.
You would have to do something like this for all the others. There would be one more manual step later to ensure that the parameters of the cite templates are in order, but that is usually less of a problem. The rest is automatic (if it works). If you want to go through with the long first step, I would help you with the rest. Phlsph7 (talk) 08:00, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
Okay, that's much less automated than I had assumed. I think for me, at least in this case, it would be very little less work just to do it all manually (if I do it at all).
Thanks so much, though, for offering to help!
It's genuinely baffling to me how this site doesn't already have (and employ by default) a template for references that would auto-populate a standardized bibliography. But I guess that's neither here nor there.
@PatrickJWelsh: The amount of work depends a lot on the state of the article. In the case of Philosophy, it was not too much work since most references already used the cite-templates. My impression is that the sfn-format is more of a standard for GAs and FAs while most other articles depend on regular ref-tags. Phlsph7 (talk) 16:00, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
Notes
^The template "citation" does not work and also needs to be changed to one of the cite-templates.
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Hi Phlsph7, I am looking at running Logic as the TFA on 5 November. Given that it is a bit on the technical sode, I wondered if you fancied having first stab at a draft blurb? Cheers. Gog the Mild (talk) 21:46, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
Delaying or not is your call. Some people like to tie their TFAs to a "Day" or anniversary, others are not so bothered. Let me know how you decide. If you go for 14 Jan you will need to list the article at TFAP and in due course nominate it at TFAR. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:11, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
Looks good to me. You can add it to TFA Requests if you wish, for additional feedback. In any event I plan to run it in November. Thanks. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:11, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
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Hi I saw you want to improve the Motivation article. A while ago I followed a sports psychology class who also extensively discussed the topic of motivation. Things that might be interesting to write about are: Nature vs nurture (Scientists still discuss what is the bigger factor that leads to motivation or a combination of both), examples per type of motivation: for example extrinsic motivation is caused by: money, rewards, fear of punishment, while intrinsic is caused by autonomy, belonging, curiosity etc. Maybe write something about the flow channel by csikszentmihalyi. Can't find the model itself on Wikipedia but it is being taught at schools and important to understand what causes someone to be motivated (Self-efficacy, Autonomy, Level of challenge, Level of skill) if these are just right you get into that "flow channel". Interesting topic! Coldbolt (talk) 14:53, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
Hello Coldbolt and thanks for the suggestions. Having examples of the different types of motivation is a good idea. One difficulty with articles on very broad topics, and also a problem with the article in its current form, is that one has to be very selective about what to include. As far as I'm aware, Csikszentmihalyi's theories are usually not discussed in detail in overview works on motivation. But maybe a remark can be added in the section on intrinsic motivation. I'll keep an eye on this as I go about the literature review and I'll see if it is justified to include something. Phlsph7 (talk) 07:48, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi, Thanks for your comments when reviewing the article about Shrewsbury. One comment I didn't quite follow was: "avoid American English (travellers)", what word would you suggest in preference? Regards Murgatroyd49 (talk) 15:00, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
Please let me know if there are other confusing points. I used Grammarly for spellchecking and it showed a few more potential minor issues, like missing commas and hyphens. It might be good to use it or another spellchecker before a GA renomination. Phlsph7 (talk) 15:35, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
My apologies, but I am certain that at least 90% of what you thought was not sourced was. I added yet more references, and I am now confident that 95-99% is sourced. (Like all good scientists I will never claim 100%.) I admit that the article is quite technical, but that's the nature of the beast. (It is very mild compared to the literature.) Ldm1954 (talk) 03:08, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
I'm not sure that there is a good fit in our GA categories for topics in communication theory. Maybe "Culture and cultural studies" is as good as it gets so I'll leave it as it is. Another candidate would be "Anthropology, anthropologists, sociology and sociologists". Phlsph7 (talk) 08:29, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
Can you please explain why you reverted my edit? The referenced article does support the thesis that this is a theoretical physically consistent possibility? Strecosaurus (talk) 22:36, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
Hello Strecosaurus and thanks for your efforts at improving this article. The main reason why I removed this addition was that it is not supported by the source: the source does not discuss infinite regresses anywhere. Another reason is that the claim it makes is possibly false: not everything that is infinite is an infinite regress.
As a sidenote: I saw that you added the specific source https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02338 to several different articles. This could be considered a form of reference spamming, see WP:REFSPAM. If you are personally associated with this source or its author then you need to declare your conflict of interest (see WP:COI). In this case, it would probably be best not to avoid this type of editing. Phlsph7 (talk) 07:19, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
Okay, thank you, that answers my question. (And I got this article from one of Aron Ra's recent videos discussing whether the Universe can be eternal into the past purely on physics grounds or not, and it was also linked in the video description; as a Wikipedian I added it where it seemed appropriate, seems like an interesting result, feel free to revert if you think otherwise.) Strecosaurus (talk) 12:40, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Phlsph7. Your additions to Arithmetic caused a lot of no target errors. If you haven't already you should turn on the error messages for this type of reference, you can find the details of how to do so here Category:Harv and Sfn template errors. I've fixed most of the errors using the URLs used in the page numbers of the references, but a few are still missing. Could you add the required cites for "Nagel 2002", "EoC staff 2016", and "Hosch 2023" to the Sources section or let me know what works these refer to? -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 13:24, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
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Just cam here to say the same thing! You are on a roll with all of these high quality, high importance articles. I hope the Education FAC goes well! People on WP:DISCORD are rooting you for you as well. Panini!•🥪06:27, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
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While I have got nothing against you as a person, I am somewhat annoyed by your comments at the RfC. I don't think it is fair to say I'm trying to "put stones in people's way"; I'm trying to establish the minimal possible framework of policy for breathing room to explore the potential of a new technology. You may have noticed that, every time there's one of those big project-wide discussions about LLMs, there's a sizeable contingent of people who simply say that they're garbage and we need to ban them entirely -- I will also note that this contingent grows larger in direct proportion to the amount of slop that is poured into the new pages feed. If we refuse to do anything at all about this issue, even the smallest token gesture, it is not going to result in a bright new sunny day for LLM enjoyers. jp×g🗯️09:25, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
@JPxG: Thanks for letting me know how you feel and I regret that my comments annoyed you. My criticism expressed in the stone-comment was not directed at you as a person but at "the policy in its current formulation". I appreciate all the effort you have poured into the project of addressing inappropriate LLM uses. The change I proposed to the current formulation was meant as a contribution to this project. My impression is that the two of us agree that LLMs are both useful and dangerous and that a middle way is required to harness their potential while minimizing their downsides. Phlsph7 (talk) 09:49, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
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Section "Beginning of communication" for the article "Communication"
Hi Phlsph7! Thank you for your valuable comments and appreciating my efforts. Do you think that a concise explanation of the topic (the beginning of communication) might be available in another already existing section as a short part of it (e.g., in “Communication Studies”)? Best regards, Ana Padovana (talk) 13:57, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello Ana Padovana and thanks for your effort at improving this article and your detailed research. The section "Communication studies" is supposed to give a concise overview of the most important developments and topics in this field. I don't think that the theories covered in your addition are widely discussed in communication studies. The main article Communication studies has some more space for details. You could try adding one or two sentences to that article if the sources on communication studies support it.
As a side note: I saw that you added similar sections to other articles on broad topics. There is a chance that they have similar problems. Many of your contributions cover shared intentionality and mention Michael Tomasello. If you have a conflict of interest, for example, because you are personally associated with some of the authors and/or publications, then you have to declare that. Phlsph7 (talk) 18:03, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
I found a way to mention communication between mother and fetus in one sentence. This is not a major topic relative to communication in general so I don't think a detailed discussion is justified. Phlsph7 (talk) 18:36, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi, Thank you for mentioning the topic of "beginning of communication" in the article. The origin of any appearance in Nature is a crucial part of its essence. To my mind, ‘refining the theoretical understanding of communication’ is impossible without studying its beginning. While one sentence is better than zero, the sentence "Some basic forms of communication happen even before birth between mother and embryo and include information about nutrition and emotions" may create many critical comments. For example, what does this sentence mean by the definition of ‘basic forms of communication’ between two organisms that cannot interact through the sensory system: one of them is in a womb and does not possess abstract thinking to interact through a coding system being at the reflexes stage of development? This is precisely the central point of the problem.
‘Communication studies covers a wide area overlapping with many other disciplines, such as biology, anthropology, psychology, sociology, linguistics, media studies, and journalism.’(the section ‘Communication studies’ of the article) Therefore human in se, in the meaning of "homo sapiens," plays an essential role in communication studies; communication and cognition are closely related topics (they only exist in co-existence). Even though it may seem that the origins of communication is a novel topic for communication studies, it has been intensively discussed in the context of the topic of cognition since the XIX century. Famous thinkers Kant, children development psychologists Piaget and Vygotsky, and modern scientists such as cognitive psychologist Anne Treisman contributed to this knowledge.
The significance of knowledge about the beginning of communication cannot be overestimated since it can show new research directions for developing the notion of communication.
I do not think that one or two questions may explain this broad issue.
I am really confused by your question about a conflict of interest. No, I'm not paid to edit Wiki. However, I like this topic of beginning cognition and know some scientists working in this area. Some of them, I do not like. I sympathize with Tomasello's ideas and could call myself his follower, although I do not know him personally. Whether or not it means that I am personally associated with these scientists? Thank you for posing the question. Thank you for the kind and prompt response! Best regards, Ana Padovana (talk) 22:24, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
The article discusses various forms of communication, including communication between plants, between cells, and between non-living entities. Given this background, I don't think that communication between mother and fetus is a particularly problematic phenomenon. If the sentence can be formulated in a way that avoids the problem you see then we could consider it.
I suggest that you read WP:COI. It is not restricted to paid editing. If you are merely a fan of Tomasello or another author you cite but have no contact with them then you don't need to worry about conflict of interest. If you are personally associated with them or if some of the papers you cite are your own or from a research group you are associated with then it could be conflict of interest. Phlsph7 (talk) 17:11, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for the kind proposal! I would suggest this (additionally to your sentence) if you prefer a short form:
Some basic forms of communication happen even before birth between mother and embryo and include information about nutrition and emotions.[1][2]Michael Tomasello developed the psychological construct of Shared intentionality to account for unaware processes during ecological learning.
Here is just one more comment supporting Michael Tomasello. In 2022, he received the David Rumelhart Prize in the Cognitive Science Society as an award for his insights into cognition evolution and, specifically, the knowledge development about the contribution of shared intentionality to cognition and social reality formation. Moreover, he was awarded: Jean Nicod Prize, Paris, 2006; Mind and Brain Prize, University of Torino, 2007; Hegel Prize, Stuttgart, 2009; Oswald Külpe Prize, University of Würzburg, 2009; Max Planck Research Prize, 2010; Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, American Psychological Association, 2015 and many others. Best regards, Ana Padovana (talk) 06:03, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm sorry if I'm a bit slow, but I don't understand why it is necessary to present this example in the light of Tomasello's novel theory of shared intentionality. I checked the two sources of the example and they mention neither Tomasello nor shared intentionality.
The main point of this subsection is to explain non-verbal communication. Communication between mother and embryo is merely used as an example. If this example is as problematic as you say and can only be discussed through the lens of a novel theory that introduces unexplained concepts to the reader then it may be better to remove the example. Phlsph7 (talk) 16:44, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hello Johnmarkh and thanks for the feedback and bringing this to the talkpage. Your reasoning makes sense but many definitions put much more stress on transmission than on reception. I agree that for good communication, the reception part is key, but I'm not sure that this needs to be emphasized in the first sentence (see MOS:LEADCLUTTER) rather explaining it later. A shorter alternative would be "exchange of information". However, this is also not ideal, since it implies that information goes back and forth, which is not always the case. The precise definition is a difficult and controversial subject, as discussed in the section Communication#Definitions. Phlsph7 (talk) 13:08, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
@CactiStaccingCrane: Thanks, that's an interesting warning template! I apologize to all the harmed parties for depriving them of the opportunity to be the first to make the constructive edits in question. :) Phlsph7 (talk) 17:17, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
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Hello there. I have no particular justification for assuming you either have the time or the inclination for this particular article—I suspect it's not squarely in your wheelhouse—but I've been working on Zhuangzi (book), and my goal is to get it to FA status. I would like to actively emulate your work in its usefulness, elegance, and concision—I've just acquired your Flesch scoring script, as like many others I struggle to tune sentences for maximum ease and clarity, so I really should've found this before. It will be a godsend. I would like to keep the article under 5000 words, for no other reason than simply bluntly preventing the worst excesses. The largest omission to my eyes is a proper discussion of historical commentaries—which I don't expect any particular expertise in from most anyone on English Wikipedia, of course—but lacking further expertise it is a bit overwhelming looking down the barrel of such an important work in the history of philosophy, and trying to weigh all its different themes as have been analyzed throughout history. In any case, thank you in advance for any input you may or may not have, and thank you for the excellent work and the inspiration. Cheers!Remsense留10:07, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
Hello Remsense, thanks for the feedback and I'm happy to hear that the readability script is helpful! Your project is interesting and keeping the article below 5000 words sounds like a good idea. I've added a few observations below but keep in mind that while I have some rough ideas about Taoism, I know very little about this book itself.
I agree that having more on historical commentaries would be a good idea. You might find [2] helpful and some information can be found at [3].
It might also be good to discuss relativism in the themes-section. [4] has some information on this.
Have you considered giving more space in the themes section to wu wei and to how the book responds to other currents in Chinese philosophy, such as Mohism?
The Zhuangzi (Chinese: 莊子, historically romanized Chuang Tzŭ) is a work of Chinese literature written during the late Warring States period (476–221 BC), named for its traditional author "Master Zhuang". You could consider turning the first into the second sentence since the more import fact seems to be that it is a foundational texts of Taoism. Something along the lines "The Zhuangzi is one of the foundational texts of Taoism. It was written during...". Another thought would be to be to move the expression in the parenthesis to the body of the article (see MOS:LEADCLUTTER).
Stein and Pelliot ultimately took most of manuscripts back to Europe add "the" before "manuscripts"
The Zhuangzi is most influential work of pure literature written add "the" before "most"
Zhuangzi did not entirely abandon language and reason, but "only wished to point out that over-dependence on them could limit the flexibility of thought" This formulation be read as implying that the quote is from Zhuangzi.
Thank you very much! I think I will start by splitting part of the "Themes" section off into a "Comparison" section. Cheers! Remsense留13:21, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
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Sorry to see the archiving! If you open a PR or new FAC in the future, feel free to ping me and I'd like to review it further if I have the time. Best, {{u|Sdkb}}talk19:13, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
Hello Pharaoh496 and thanks for all the effort you have invested into this article. Yes, you can always renominate the article, see WP:GAN/I#N5. The next reviewer will probably read through the previous review to check whether the main points of criticism were addressed. It's usually best to either implement the suggestions or be able to present very good reasons for why they shouldn't be implemented, see WP:QF point 5. If you are unsure about the quality of an article, you can also ask for a peer review before a (re-)nomination. Phlsph7 (talk) 08:33, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
@Pharaoh496: That's good to hear. The sourcing looks better now but there are still a few unreferenced paragraphs in the body of the article. To be on the safe side, you could add references to them as well. If you need help identifying the unreferenced paragraphs, you could use the script User:Phlsph7/ListUnreferencedParagraphs. Good luck with the nomination! Phlsph7 (talk) 16:33, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
thats i presume about the relations bit, unfortunately even on the relations portion i was unable to find citations.
i hope you re-review my article to be full circle haha
I think I'll leave the second review to another reviewer. Short articles like this one often do not take very long to get reviewed. There is a review backlog planned in March in case it hasn't been reviewed until then. Phlsph7 (talk) 17:22, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi Dedhert.Jr, I hope to get them to FA status at some point but I'll have to see how the response at the GA review is. It usually takes a long time for someone to review GA nominations of very wide topics like those two so it could be a while. Phlsph7 (talk) 09:59, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi, Phlsph7. Enjoyed working with you at Communication. Just wondering what you are up to, these days? Any interest in philosophy of law? Have been getting into philosophy of law, especially legal positivism, and one of its proponents Hans Kelsen, but to some extent precursors like John Austin, and successors like H.L.A. Hart. I don't have a legal background at all, but the philosophy of what is law and where does it come from and what is it based on is fascinating. If you know zip about this, I could recommend some intro videos by Jeffrey Kaplan, asst. prof. of philo at UNC Greensboro; a good starting point is Legal Positivism - the dominant theory in jurisprudence but all his videos are packed with information and a great intro. One tip before you even get into it: that's positivism as in, "that which is posited", not about something "positive" (as opposed to negative). Maybe calling it, "Legal positism" would've avoided a lot of the initial confusion about the term. Anyway, lmk what you are up to, would be fun to collaborate on something else. Cheers, Mathglot (talk) 10:09, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
Remsense Kaplan has so many good videos, I actually linked the wrong one, as far as an intro. I've corrected the link above, but feel free to continue the path you were on. But do look at this one if you're not familiar with positivism; it's a better intro. Mathglot (talk) 10:55, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi Mathglot and Remsense, I have some basic ideas about philosophy of law mostly from studying related topics, such as natural law theory when reading about Aquinas. It sounds like an interesting topic to get into sometime in the future. I had a short look at some of the videos, they could be quite useful to get an initial idea of the topic before diving into the more technical reliable sources.
The article Semantics has taken up most of my time in the last weeks. There is still a lot to do so this will probably keep me busy for some more time. Phlsph7 (talk) 12:48, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
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Hello again—I'm curious if you have any further thoughts on the linguistic structure diagram you took removed from Semantics! Coincidentally, I've been getting my hands dirty pondering how to rewrite Morphology a few rungs inward. While I am generally much more "familiar" with the inner rings, I have definitely appreciated how none of them perfectly contain the others at any level. However, in the broadest strokes, the diagram seemed fairly representative and helpful at the very introduction of an encyclopedia article, from what I've understood: phone → phoneme → morpheme, word → phrase, sentence at the very least is "true enough" for a visual aid while obscuring considerable complexity and dimension (for example, like that of written language as not wholly phonocentrically sourced), but it certainly seems that phrase → semantics gives me pause. Do you think some form of this diagram is viable? I would be interested in perhaps redesigning it, if so. Remsense诉13:38, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
@Remsense: I agree with you that the diagram can be quite helpful to get a rough understanding of the relation between these different fields. My main concern is that the different fields are often presented as distinct branches in the analysis of language. For example, from [5]: One traditional distinction in language analysis contrasts pragmatics with syntax and semantics. The danger with the diagram is that readers might jump to the conclusion that semantics is a subfield of pragmatics and syntax is a subfield of semantics, which is not how the reliable sources usually treat their relations. If the diagram is taken from an author that makes these claims then one solution could be to attribute this view to them, maybe with an added footnote that others see it differently. Another approach might be to remove, add, rearrange, or relabel the levels in the diagram but I'm not sure how to solve the problem this way. The diagram is used in various articles so finding some kind of solution would be important. Phlsph7 (talk) 14:00, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
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In case it wasn't clear, I really appreciate all the work you've been doing on Arithmetic. My dislike of some sources and disagreements about some questions of high-level organization aside, it's so much better than it was before. Again, thanks. –jacobolus(t)18:52, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
@Jacobolus: Thanks a lot for the feedback! In Wikipedia discussion, it's often the case that disagreements on certain issues get much more attention than underlying consensus on other issues. Phlsph7 (talk) 09:26, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
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Hello Nurg and thanks for raising this point. As far as the GA criteria go, this would fall under criterion 1a about the article being well-written. Given that various style guides recommend using "that" for restrictive relative clauses, it's probably preferable to follow their suggestion unless there is a good reason otherwise. But this is a matter of degree and I wouldn't insist on this point as a GA standard or double down that the nominator changes it if they disagree. Phlsph7 (talk) 11:46, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
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Hi, and thanks for reviewing the article. I saw that it was reviewed and it was nominated under my name. However, my concern is that I didn't nominate it at all? Someone else seemed to have nominated it under my name: MysticCipher87 put the review up and seemingly put it under my name. I didn't do anything. I'm confused as to how I'm the nominator? I also had barely made any edits related to the article or its talk page, either. Something about this feels odd. Cheers, and carpe diem! Nascar9919 (he/him • t • c) 13:05, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
@Phlsph7: Another note: I never knew this was put under my name until I saw the failure. Also, from what I can tell after looking through their edits, they seemed to have copied my signature and changed the visuals and not the actual links themselves. Cheers, and carpe diem! Nascar9919 (he/him • t • c) 13:07, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
@Nascar9919: Sorry for the confusion and thanks for clarifying the issue. I was a little confused about this point as well since the article talkpage showed MysticCipher87 as the nominator while the review page and the GA overview page show you as the nominator. I had assumed that a name change was responsible. If the nomination template was filled out with errors, that would explain the mismatch. There was also another problem about the GA page number: the GA page was Talk:Billy_Ballew_Motorsports/GA2 with a page number of 2 even though there is no Talk:Billy_Ballew_Motorsports/GA1. This could have happened if MysticCipher87 just copied the nomination template from an article that you had previously nominated. Phlsph7 (talk) 13:41, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
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Hi, just wanted to let you know I've renominated the article on Arrow's impossibility theory over at WP:GAN. I think I've fixed all the missing citations from last time. Thanks for your help! :) –Sincerely, A Lime21:19, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for implementing the suggestions, the sourcing looks much better now. Good luck with the nomination. Phlsph7 (talk) 07:02, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
Thanks! Would you be willing to do the GA review? It should be a lot quicker this time around since you'd only need to check up on the places I'd missed the first time around. –Sincerely, A Lime18:23, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
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Is this one that you would be interested in working on? I think it would be fun to get it to GA, especially as it's one of those vital articles where you have to do the thing the article is about in order to successfully pass GAN. Remsense诉07:46, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
@Remsense: Thanks for the suggestion, it looks like an interesting candidate for a GA project. And the fact that "you have to do the thing the article is about" is definitely a plus. However, I'm currently busy as I just started working on the article Ontology. Phlsph7 (talk) 11:07, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
i addede the unity of science to see also in theory of everything, and i added formal epistemology to formal logic section. 5.234.36.210 (talk) 12:18, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
Also, can you please use these two resources for editing wikipedia articles about unity of science and formal epistemology.
Hello 5.234.36.210, these two sources are reliable and could be used. Your edit to the article "Logic" was reverted because formal logic has countless applications with formal epistemology being only one of them. The unity of science is somehow relevant to the theory of everything but they are not the same topics. To get faster responses to your questions, you could ask them at WP:TEAHOUSE. Phlsph7 (talk) 16:27, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
Even with the best of intentions, reviews don't always go as smooth as one would hope for. Thanks for your thorough evaluation. Phlsph7 (talk) 11:22, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
I did have good intentions, and I hoped that 'thorough' would carry enough weight to close it out. I went through that thing with a fine toothed comb! I can't believe you haven't gotten it yet. I want to complain but I know that won't help! For heaven's sakes, what more do they want? It has nothing but support. Aaarggh! I hope they don't leave you hanging for too long. Jenhawk777 (talk) 16:40, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
I hope that the reason for the delay just is that the coordinators haven't had the time yet to take a final look at the nomination. Phlsph7 (talk) 08:21, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
I have been wringing my hands and checking every day, and just now I found the notice it has been promoted!! There's some kind of delay with the bot, but you got it! See - they did finish with me. It was enough with the others that no more was needed! You got it! I am so glad!! YAY!! Jenhawk777 (talk) 21:13, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
I was on holiday, camping and hiking in the Highlands of Scotland, otherwise I am sure it would all have gone more smoothly and rapidly. Gog the Mild (talk) 22:34, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
Well of course it did! You are reasonable and co-operative! That makes all the difference. I couldn't just approve everything and still look like I was doing a good job, but all issues were minor imo, and you fixed them, and that enabled me to speak with some authority and knowledge - some weight as they say in philosophy - when I approved it. It was an excellent article from the get-go, so there wasn't really any doubt in my mind where we would end up. Hey, I am going to ask that question that we got stymied at for awhile. If I was wrong and put you through the wringer for nothing I will not only apologize, I will owe you one. I'll be back to let you know what they say. Jenhawk777 (talk) 19:37, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
I posted the question to Gog the Mild at [8]. I did my best to represent the disagreement fairly. He said rephrasing to idealists was OR in his opinion, and in my opinion, he is a WP god and an FA authority. Call upon me anytime you feel a need to be roasted over the coals for any reason. Jenhawk777 (talk) 22:15, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for probing more deeply into this issue. I surely don't want to argue with a WP god and an FA authority on this particular case so I'll restrict myself to a more general observation. As I understand the linguistic level, a generic usage of "X-ists" and "the X-ist" is sometimes employed to describe the view of "X-ism" (and vice versa). This seems to be the case, for example, in [9] (first paragraph: materialism/materialists) and in [10] (lead section and the section "1. Dualism": dualism/dualists/the dualist). It may depend on the context whether generic reference is meant and it's possible that this was not the case for the disputed passage. Phlsph7 (talk) 10:35, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
I agree, I think it is context dependent. What you say makes sense, and I think there are cases where it's fine. At any rate, you cooperated even when you didn't agree, and that deserves upvoting all by itself. Jenhawk777 (talk) 16:38, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
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DYK for Metaphysics
On 21 June 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Metaphysics, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a nihilist school of metaphysics contends that tables and chairs do not exist? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Metaphysics. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Metaphysics), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Hi! You were recommended to me as someone who might be willing to help get this article to FA status. It's a big long article, but it's also a "flagship" article, and it seems to me only right that it should be among our best accordingly - but I need help. I have never had an FA. Please give it a once over if at all possible! Any and all comments will be appreciated. Thank you! Jenhawk777 (talk) 18:14, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
@Jenhawk777: That definitely is a big and important project. It's probably not the easiest article to get started with FA. Form a first look, it seems to be well written and researched. It's quite long at 12900 words prose size (see WP:SIZERULE) but may be acceptable given the scope of the topic.
The earliest were the University of Bologna (1088), the University of Oxford (1096), and the University of Paris where the faculty was of international renown (c. 1150). needs a reference
the paragraph starting with Luther, Huldrych Zwingli, and many others protested is unsourced
Monter 2020 is listed in the source section but not cited in the article
For some sources without a page number, you set the parameter "p" of the sfn template to "n/a". A better alternative might be to use the parameter "loc" instead to refer to named sections where the claims are found, e.g. "loc=§ 1. Introduction" instead of "p=n/a", or to remove the parameter altogether.
Both Islam and crusade negatively impacted Eastern Christianity should this be "the Crusades"?
By the sixth century, there is evidence for Christian communities replace "for" with "of"
One of the oldest representation of Jesus replace "representation" with "representations"
Early Christianity's system of beliefs and morality have been subject-verb agreement error: system ... have
ordinary people that Roman culture replace "that" with "whom"
is affirmed in the fourth century Milan edict replace "fourth century" with "fourth-century"
First century Christian writings replace "First century" with "First-century"
This destigmatized illness, transformed health care in Antiquity, and led remove both commas
expressing tolerance for all religions, legalizing Christian worship add "and" before "legalizing"
local leaders and lower level clergy were replace "lower level" with "lower-level"
I'm not sure about the exact rules, the article keeps switching between uppercase and lower case of the terms "west"/"western" and "east"/"eastern", for example but large sections of the Western church remained unconvinced and doctrinal supremacy over the western church
few councils that occur in the early replace "occur" with "occured"
it was the Nestorian churches who were best replace "who" with "that"
I think "the Crusades" should always be uppercase
Constantinople remained its capitol and replace "capitol" with "capital"
led folk to believe the end of the world was immanent. replace "immanent" with "imminent"
OMG!! This is amazing! Bless you! Thank you! I will get to work on every one of these today. Thank you again. Jenhawk777 (talk) 19:41, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
I copied all of these to the peer review page just in case someone else has an opinion too - cuz that never happens... Jenhawk777 (talk) 19:45, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
A thousand blessings on your head!! My electricity was off all day today, and I got almost nothing done. :-( Your second comment made me realize I need better sources for the entire Reformation section, so I am beginning a complete rework of that. You have helped in more ways than you know! Thank you again and again. Jenhawk777 (talk) 23:20, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
Dunning-Kruger Effect
You removed the "controversy" section from the Dunning-Kruger effect page. The page now reads like there is no controversy about it at all. (As if the very fact that you removed it, didn't emphasize it?) Is this an accurate reflection on the body of knowledge surrounding it, objectively, or only so in your opinion? I leave this question for you to ponder and research, and to reconsider your contributions to the article to bring it more in line with reflecting the body of knowledge surrounding it. Dagelf (talk) 08:07, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
Hello, thanks for your comment and your contributions to the article Dunning–Kruger effect. I assume you are referring to text you added in March 2024, which I removed shortly afterwards. The reason was that the text "mostly repeats information from the section "Explanations", mostly without proper sourcing". If you feel that the section "Explanations" ignores major positions or disagreements, I would be happy to have a look the ignored sources and make adjustments if necessary. Phlsph7 (talk) 07:28, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
You're absolutely crazy for taking on the quality improvements on Existence, Philosophy, Communication, Logic, etc., but in the best way possible. I truly admire your work, and though it may be an understatement, I'd like to offer you this barnstar as a token of appreciation for your efforts. joeyquism (talk) 18:35, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
@JohnAdams1800: Thanks for adding all the references, the sourcing looks much better now! If there are sources for the information in the two tables on the bottom, it might be good to add them before the renomination. Phlsph7 (talk) 07:14, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
When I saw today's front page I wondered if you were the author of the featured article, and lo, you are! I'm not the smallest use to you in reviews because my stolidly earthbound mind does not cope with abstract concepts, but I recognise talent and dedication when I see them, and I take my hat off to you. Tim riley talk19:12, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
I really appreciate your kind words! I found your comments on my nominations quite helpful, in spite of (or maybe because of) their earthbound perspective. Phlsph7 (talk) 08:07, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
Congratulations, Phlsph7! The article you nominated, Ethics, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, David Fuchs (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:05, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
Congratulations, and thank you today for Existence, introduced: "Existence is the state of having reality. Often contrasted with essence, it is a wide and fundamental concept associated with various tricky problems, such as the status of imaginary entities like Santa Claus." --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:11, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
Today I have two "musicians" on the Main page, one is also the topic of my story, watch and listen, - I like today's especially because you see him at work, hear him talk about his work and the result of his work - rare! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:36, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
On 13 August, Bach's cantata was 300 years old, and the image one. The cantata is an extraordinary piece, using the chorale's text and famous melody more than others in the cycle. It's nice to have not only a recent death, but also this "birthday" on the Main page. And a rainbow in my places. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:49, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
Hello Jd2718, thanks for your edit and for raising the point here. I agree that repetitive language should be avoided. I made some adjustments to make sure that no paragraph overuses one term or the other. Phlsph7 (talk) 08:36, 14 September 2024 (UTC)
Thank you today for Ethics, introduced: "Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena. It examines competing theories about how people should act in general and in specific domains while considering the assumptions on which the theories rest." -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:55, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
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