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How are the texts modified?
The texts are not dumbed down. Where a change is made, it is to make the original thought more accessible than it is on the original
page. In no case have I knowingly simplified or otherwise altered the
intellectual content. The changes have mainly consisted in one or more of
the following:
- basic updating of language - examples
- less convoluted syntax and shorter sentences - examples
- numbering of points
- indenting of passages that are helped by such a display
- replacement of obsolete words with current ones
- replacement of still-current words used in meanings that are now obsolete - examples
- I sometimes insert, between small ·dots·, material that makes the author’s meaning clearer or more explicit - example
- I use •bullets to make formal aspects of the text more easily
accessible - example
- Sometimes I omit a passage that doesn’t earn its keep, signifying this by . . . . a four-point ellipsis, just to keep things moving along at a good pace - examples
- On a few occasions I relocate part of one paragraph in the following paragraph, where it is more at home. - example
- Sometimes I interpose a remark or explanation of my own in small type within [square
brackets] - examples
- Sometimes I replace a passage in the original text by a briefer and/or clearer description of its main content. These replacements are in normal-sized type and within [square brackets] - example
The significances of the indentations, dots, bullets, brackets, and ellipses are
explained at the start of each text.
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