Revision can turn a passable paper into an excellent one and change an excellent one into a radiant one.

2004, Mara Kalnins (editor), Note on the Text, Joseph Conrad, Victory: An Island Tale, page xxxix,
The full history of its composition, revision, transmission, and publication is a complex and intricate one beyond the necessarily limited scope of this Note, […] .

Many formalisms for belief revision use extraneous mechanisms for deciding what beliefs to keep and this makes it harder to iterate the process.

All that last minute revision really paid off in the exam! I got top marks!

2008, Philip A. Kalra, editor, Essential Revision Notes in Medicine for Students, volume 1:

The first thing members need to understand about a revision is that the current bylaws are not under consideration at all. If the revision is defeated, no changes to the current bylaws take place.

1992, Helen Baron, Carl Baron (editors), Introduction, The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H, Lawrence: Sons and Lovers, Part 1, 2002 paperback edition, Cambridge University Press, page lxxx,
However, it is evident in a minority of cases that a revision by Lawrence is prompted solely by the need to remedy some local effect caused by Garnett′s deletion, and there, clearly, Lawrence′s MS text is, in principle, to be preferred.

2008, World Bank, page 209,
Previous editions of World Development Indicators used revision 2, first published in 1948. Revision 3 was completed in 1989, and many countries now use it. But revision 2 is still widely used for compiling cross-country data.

Include the revision number. You may need to add a triangle and number, shown in Figure 9-6, to indicate the revision number.

What philosophy needs is to be revisioned with a more hopeful, engaged inspirational point of view.

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