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    To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…

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    Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…

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    Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…

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    Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.

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Shields on Aristotle

Christopher Shields's book on Aristotle in the Routledge Philosophers series gets a justly laudatory review in the current Philosophical Review:

This delightful and fully engaging book, written in a sparkling style and abounding in entertaining examples, is designed for those who are new to Aristotle and want to approach him from a contemporary philosophical standpoint. It presupposes no familiarity with ancient philosophy and just a little bit of general philosophical knowledge. The main objectives Shields sets for himself are to reconstruct and explain the philosophical motivations that uphold Aristotle’s central tenets, and to provide his readers with the key concepts and a general interpretative strategy that they can put to work in studying Aristotle’s texts and assessing his views on their own. The book fulfills these goals very well and thereby offers a prime alternative to standard introductions to Aristotle.

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