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.
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.