On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 3:32 AM Emmanuel Charpentier <
emm.charpentier@free.fr> wrote:

> Le mardi 20 juillet 2021 à 02:55 -0400, Matt Price a écrit :
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> Certainly citation of personal communications is common in the fields of
> history and philosophy of science, where it represents an effort to
> responsibly represent the source of ideas owed to other persons.
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> I don't dispute that.
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>   It's not really a question of whether you personally would do it; it's a
> question of whether org will support a practice that exists in some
> real-world contexts.
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> What I dispute is that such "non-citations" are dangling pointers, better
> replaced by incises or footnotes ... or proper citations.
>

just wanted to say sorry if I was gouchy there.  Shouldn't write emails so
late at night!

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> Emmanuel Charpentier
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