Reading for Philosophical Inquiry A Brief Introduction to Philosophical Thinking ver. 0.21 An Open Source Reader

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convenient for a wide variety of readers. Moreover, users themselves can
improve the product if they wish to do so. Viewed in this way, the release
of these readings is in a genuine sense a small test of the Delphi effect in
open source publishing.
This particular edition should not be viewed as a completed work. It is
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on the “release early, release often” model championed by Eric S. Raymond.1 With the completion of version 1.0, various formats of this work
can be made available for distribution. If the core reading and commentary
prove useful, the successive revisions, readings, commentary, and other
improvements by users can be released in incrementally numbered “stable”versions.