As we work our way through a book – any book of nonfiction that has an argument or thesis, at least – we try to identify positions that the author takes. Sometimes the author is helpful, adding clauses like ‘The main argument of this book is…’ or ‘Thus,…’ to tip us off to that the embedded proposition is one that the author actually believes. This answ…
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