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Past Masters on CD-Rom
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Past Masters on-line (via Internet)
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Works
Included
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- The Collected Dialogues of Plato (Greek &
English)
- The Complete Works of Aristotle (English)
- The Collected Works of Thomas Aquinas (Latin &
English)
- British Philosophy: 1600-1900 (English &
Latin)
- Kierkegaard: Samlede Vårker (Danish)
- The Continental Rationalists (English)
- Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill
(English)
- The Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce
- The Published Works of Ludwig Wittgenstein (German
and English)
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- The Collected Dialogues of Plato (English only)
- The Complete Works of Aristotle (English)
- The Collected Works of Thomas Aquinas (English only
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- British Philosophy: 1600-1900 (English &
Latin)
- Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill
(English)
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Search
Engine
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- Search word
- Operators -- “and” “not”
“or” “exclusive or”
- Wild card “?” and “*”
- Exact Phrase
- Proximity Search (ordered and regular)
- Accented (Non-English) Characters
- Nesting
- Group Search
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- Search word
- Operators “and” “not”
“or”
- Wild Card “*”
- Exact Phrase
- Proximity Search (ordered and regular)
- Accented (Non-English) Characters Interface
Characteristics
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Display
Options
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- Only headings of the hits
- Concordance -- only a few words of context appear
surrounding searched word
- Full paragraph which contains searched word
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- Only Headings with hits in the Table of
Contents View
- Words Around Hits in the Table of Contents View
- Only Records with Hits in the Document View
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Overall
User-friendliness
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somewhat complicated to operate between and within the
windows
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easy to use
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Maneuvering among hits list and
documents
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- PgDown/Up or arrow key
- "Go To" command from the file menu
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- click-on navigational buttons take one directly to a
particular document or window
- hypertext links for the footnotes
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Saving/Printing
Results
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Allows for printing/saving entire hits list, or selected
document/blocked text from the list
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Depends on capabilities of your browser
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Help
documentation
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Printed, online User's
Guide
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On-line help file with hypertext links to/from related
screens, ETC User's Guide
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Dependability
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Reliable
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Erratic; usually excellent but depends on local resource
use, ports available, and network traffic
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