History of Philosophy Text Reconstruction
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Humanities
Reconstruct arguments from ancient through modern primary texts and defend readings with quoted evidence
What it does (3)
Quizzes
Write quick-quiz items where each stem contains a short quoted or closely paraphrased passage from the source's primary texts, with its citation, and asks what the passage argues, which premise it supplies to a larger argument, which reading it rules out, or what the author's technical term means in that place. Four options, one best answer. Distractors must be readings a careless student would defend: a later…
Tests
Build a graded assessment on the primary texts in the source material, spanning whatever of the ancient, medieval, early modern and Kantian material is present. Blueprint: twenty percent multiple choice on argument structure, forty percent short-answer reconstruction, forty percent one interpretive essay. Short answers give a passage and require the argument in numbered premises with the conclusion marked, in the…
Flashcards
Cards must be argument-shaped. Type one: front quotes or tightly paraphrases a short passage with its citation, back gives the argument in numbered premises with the conclusion marked. Type two: front names a technical term in the author's own usage, back gives the author's sense, the citation where it is introduced, and one contrast with the modern or ordinary sense. Type three: front names a standard objection to…
