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"FYI, this is often easier to read and better generally than wikipedia for a lot of articles." I reckon you are correct, but as I mentioned some weeks back in
by hilbert42 6y ago
"FYI, this is often easier to read and better generally than wikipedia for a lot of articles."
I reckon you are correct, but as I mentioned some weeks back in a reply to a question about what books would I recommend for a beginner in philosophy, SEP was one of my references in that it is an excellent resource but my recommendation came with a caveat which was that there is a huge amount of detail that's likely to overwhelm all but the most hardened.
I refer regularly to SEP and when it's just a quick reference I often find myself getting bogged down in detail. There's nothing wrong with that so long as the student knows how to extract just what's needed, the trouble is at times that can be difficult (as there's essentially no delineation between the key points and details).
Ideally we'd also have a précised, much shortened students' version.