Version Update History

Kainan Jarrette and Diana Daly

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CURRENT VERSION: 1.02

About Update History

This page provides a record of edits and changes made to this book since its initial publication. Whenever edits or updates are made in the text, we provide a record and description of those changes here. If the change is minor, the version number increases by 0.01. If the edits involve substantial updates, the version number increases to the next full number.

The files posted by this book always reflect the most recent version.

Revisions and Updates We May Make

  • Minor re-wordings or re-phrasings of concepts
    • Largely based on student and instructor feedback. If the wording of something seems to be a consistent problem, we’ll try to update it appropriately.
  • Expanding chapter material
    • We may decide we want to expand on an idea in a chapter with a little more content or context
  • Adding new parts and chapters
    • There may be new concepts, areas, or fallacies we want to explore that warrant having a whole new chapter
  • Expanding the question bank for H5P quizzes
    • We may add more questions into the bank the quizzes pull from to provide a more diverse experience between users

What We WILL NOT Change

We don’t want instructors to feel like this book will constantly be going through massive changes and be unreliable as a result. The following are things we are committed to keeping as constants throughout any versions:

  • Parts and chapters will never be removed.
  • Concepts and glossary terms will never be removed.
  • H5P content will never be removed.

Version History

Version Date Change Notes
1.0 08.18.2025 Book published Initial Release
1.01 08.19.2025
  • Added alt-text descriptions to all images in book
  • Re-coded header structure to meet accessibility guidelines
1.02 02.20.2026
  • Revised “Donor Acknowledgement” in “Introduction”: made pronoun use consistent; changed any instances of he/him to they/them.
  • Revised “How This Book Tracks Changes” in “Introduction”: revised to clarify that updates can also include revision of text based on grammatical or factual errors, or to clarify an existing concept.
  • Updated “Burden of Proof” in “Epistemology” for clarification: changed “making a claim” to “making a positive claim”; added “positive claim” to glossary and vocab section at end.
  • Updated “Why False Dilemmas Matter” in “False Dilemmas”: revised “has become” to “have become” in first sentence of last paragraph of section.
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