Following up on this post, after LP apologized and tried to explain, I replied:
Citing references and influences in ANY paper is not just an academic exercise. Michael Schwartz noted in another thread that
"Once
we move into 'second tier' and 'dialectical' (in the Bhaskarian sense)
waves of cognition, but also in being with one another do our projects,
as 'totalizing,' present themselves as also open, dynamic, stratified,
always already on-the-way, and only activated as such via dialog and in
community."
Mark Schmanko also noted in this thread that
"[I]t'd
be nice if an explicit gesture of appreciation of some sort were voiced
in tandem, mainly because, it's true, in these types of internet spaces
we end up drawing from each other's insights a great deal, and much of
this is not conscious - I no doubt have learned and refined in so many
ways my thinking by virtue of this forum (and to a lesser extent the
website)."
Citing
references is one way of expressing how our own innovations were
inspired by, and grew out of, dialog within our community. We can at
once take credit where it is due for our unique contribution to that
community while also recognizing that we stand on its shoulders. Hence
it's not just academic papers that express this sentiment but any paper.
Your
expression of that appreciation in responses here should also find its
way into the paper by referencing IPS as more than just that one
denigrating statement, which sets us up a foil to your brilliant and
apparently and solely individual correction. While I appreciate your own
variations on ideas in the paper, there are numerous sources from which
you draw and those ideas are not completely your own.
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