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Thanks for asking this. The way I wrote these guidelines, including the part you're asking about, is **not** meant to rule out posting links to papers or articles, including the SEP.
What it *is* meant to rule out is stuff like the following:
Question: Do Gödel's incompleteness theorems prove that consciousness doesn't exist?
Answer: No.
We want something more substantial in the answer, even to silly questions. It may be a link to an article, or paper, or what have you, and that's fine. But just dismissing a question or answering it in the affirmative without saying anything more isn't helpful.
That's the main purpose of this rule. The other is to encourage folks to say a bit more about their answers when appropriate. So if you're suggesting a philosopher to read on 'X', say, Plato on truth, telling them what exactly they should read in Plato is necessary, as he wrote on basically everything.
Does that answer your concerns?
Comment by TychoCelchuuu at 05/11/2018 at 15:38 UTC
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Does that answer your concerns?
Yep! When you said "substantive" I was picturing, like, substantial. If an SEP link or an invitation to Socratic dialogue or whatever counts as substantive, that certainly solves the issue.