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64 Post author: lukeprog 09 March 2011 09:17PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 01 November 2011 01:21:08PM 1 point [-]

If you do say "Many philosophers have long held that...", the natural response from your readers will be: which philosophers? and since when? It would be immensely better to at least include the originator for the principle in the statement.

A journal that receives a large number of papers will probably reject incoming papers based on formatting. Many computer science journals do this.